Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War

Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9781139462914
ISBN-13 : 1139462911
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Download or read book Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War written by Charles McNelis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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