The aim of this project is to provide a sustained analysis of the
concept of 'self' in Statius' Thebaid. It is this project's
contention that the poem is profoundly interested in ideas of
identity and selfhood. The poem stages itself as a metapoetic
exploration of the difficulties for a belated epicist in finding a
place in the literary canon; it shows the impossibility of squaring
large-scale epic poetics with small-scale, finely-wrought
Callimacheanism; it reflects the violent disjunction between
Statius' authorial pose as a poet without power and the extreme
violence of his poetics; it opens up the intricacies of
constructing original, coherent characters out of intertextual,
exemplary models. The central tenet of the project is that Statius
in the Thebaid stages his own 'death', but does so that his poem
may live. This book is intended for an academic audience including
undergraduate and graduate students as well as specialists in the
field. Although the project will be of primary importance to
readers of Flavian literature, it will also be of interest to those
who study intertextuality and characterisation in Roman literature
more generally, selfhood and identity in Roman literature and
culture and the reception of Roman literature.
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