Statius'' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War

Informationen zum Autor Charles McNelis is Assistant Professor of Classics at Georgetown University! Washington DC. Klappentext A significant reading of the epic which argues that its narrative strategies reflect the theme of internal discord. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Gods, humans and the literary tradition; 2. Beginning; 3. Nemea; 4. Middle; 5. Heroic deaths; 6. End.

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• Authors: Charles McNelis, Charles (Georgetown University Mcnelis, McNelis Charles
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521123617
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12361-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets