Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War Paperback - Softcover

McNelis, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521123615 ISBN 13: 9780521123617

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This highly original study argues that Statius' epic Thebaid reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. The Homeric and Virgilian epic traditions compete with Hellenistic poetic ideals to produce a tension between the impulse towards the generic expectations of warfare and the deferral of such conflict.

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"a welcome addition to Statian scholarship...The book is extremely nuanced and works at a number of levels." ―BMCR

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This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. At the same time that Statius reworks the Homeric and Virgilian epic traditions, he engages with Hellenistic poetic ideals as exemplified by Callimachus and the Roman Callimachean poets, especially Ovid. The result is a tension between the impulse towards the generic expectations of warfare and the desire for delay and postponement of such conflict. Ultimately, Statius adheres to the mythic paradigm of the mutual fratricide, but he continues to employ competing strategies that call attention to the fictive nature of any project of closure and conciliation. In the process, the poem offers a new mode of epic closure that emphasises individual means of resolution.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521123615
• ISBN 13: 9780521123617
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216