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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