Thebaid: Books 8-12. Achilleid (Loeb Classical Library) - Hardcover

Statius, Publius Papinius

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674012097 ISBN 13: 9780674012097

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2004

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Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil war. The extant portion of his unfinished Achilleid is strikingly different in tone: this second epic begins as a charming account of Achilles' life.

Statius was raised in the Greek cultural milieu of the Bay of Naples, and his Greek literary education is reflected in his poetry. The political realities of Rome in the first century are also evident in the Thebaid, in representations of authoritarian power and the drive for domination. This two-volume edition of the epics, a freshly edited Latin text facing a graceful translation, completes D. R. Shackleton Bailey's new Loeb Classical Library edition of Statius. Kathleen M. Coleman contributed an essay on recent scholarship on the two epics.

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D. R. Shackleton Bailey was Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Harvard University.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674012097
• ISBN 13: 9780674012097
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448
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