Statius, Thebaid 8: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary - Hardcover

 
9780199655335: Statius, Thebaid 8: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199655332 ISBN 13: 9780199655335
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR, 2016

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Composed at the end of the first century CE, Statius' Thebaid recounts the civil war in Thebes between the two sons of Oedipus, Polynices and Eteocles, and the horrific events that take place on the battlefield. Its author, the Roman poet Statius, employed a wide variety of Greco-Roman sources in order to narrate the Argive expedition against Thebes and the fratricidal war. Book 8 opens with the descent of the Argive seer Amphiaraus to the Underworld through a chasm of the earth; the soldiers mourn their seer's loss and elect a successor, Thiodamas, who placates Earth (Tellus) through a prayer, before the opening of the second day of hostilities. The book reaches its climax when fierce Tydeus is mortally wounded and dies having committed an act of cannibalism by eating his opponent's brains; Minerva leaves the battlefield in disgust, taking away from her protege the intended gift of immortality.

In this volume, Augoustakis presents the first full-length edition of Thebaid 8, with text and apparatus criticus, and an English translation. A detailed introduction discusses the Argive/Theban myth in the Greek and Roman literary tradition and art, as well as the reception of the book in subsequent centuries, especially in Dante's Divine Comedy. The accompanying commentary provides useful notes which explore questions of interpretation and Statius' language and literary craft, with particular emphasis on the exploitation of various Greek and Latin intertexts in Statius' poetry.

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Antony Augoustakis, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Antony Augoustakis is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Centennial Scholar. He is also President Elect of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (USA) for 2015-2016 and an Associate Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at Illinois.

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Verlag
OXFORD UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0199655332
ISBN 13 
9780199655335
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
400
Herausgeber
Augoustakis Antony
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