Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War by Charles McNelis

Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War

Charles McNelis

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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 Homer...

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