Statius, Thebaid 8
Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 January 2016
- ISBN 9780199655335
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages528 pages
- Size 222x147x34 mm
- Weight 732 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Five black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
In this volume, Augoustakis presents the first full-length edition of Roman poet Statius' Thebaid 8, with text and apparatus criticus, an English translation, a detailed introduction, and an accompanying commentary which explores questions of interpretation and Statius' language and literary craft.
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Composed at the end of the first century CE, Statius' Thebaid recounts the civil war in Thebes between the two sons of Oedipus, Polynices and Eteocles, and the horrific events that take place on the battlefield. Its author, the Roman poet Statius, employed a wide variety of Greco-Roman sources in order to narrate the Argive expedition against Thebes and the fratricidal war. Book 8 opens with the descent of the Argive seer Amphiaraus to the Underworld through a chasm of the earth; the soldiers mourn their seer's loss and elect a successor, Thiodamas, who placates Earth (Tellus) through a prayer, before the opening of the second day of hostilities. The book reaches its climax when fierce Tydeus is mortally wounded and dies having committed an act of cannibalism by eating his opponent's brains; Minerva leaves the battlefield in disgust, taking away from her protégé the intended gift of immortality.
In this volume, Augoustakis presents the first full-length edition of Thebaid 8, with text and apparatus criticus, and an English translation. A detailed introduction discusses the Argive/Theban myth in the Greek and Roman literary tradition and art, as well as the reception of the book in subsequent centuries, especially in Dante's Divine Comedy. The accompanying commentary provides useful notes which explore questions of interpretation and Statius' language and literary craft, with particular emphasis on the exploitation of various Greek and Latin intertexts in Statius' poetry.
Augoustakis' study is a magnificent work, one of great inves-tigative rigour, underpinned by a deep knowledge not only of Statius and Flavian epic but also more broadly of Greek and Latin literature.
Table of Contents:
Preface
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Text and Apparatus and Translation
Commentary
Bibliography
Index of Latin Words and Phrases
Index of Greek Words and Phrases
Index Locorum
General Index
