Thebaid, Books 1-7 (Loeb Classical Library) by D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Publius Papinius Statius

Thebaid, Books 1-7 (Loeb Classical Library)

D.R. Shackleton Bailey, Publius Papinius Statius

472 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous medium-paced
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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 exta...

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