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Thebaid IX (Hardcover)
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Thebaid IX (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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BLWith Latin text and English translation The epic poem the Thebaid
was composed by Statius about AD 80 to 92 in twelve books. The
subject is the expedition of the Seven against Thebes in support of
the attempt by Oedipus' son Polyneices to recover the throne from
his brother Eteocles. Book IX is set in the midst of the fighting
before the eventual death of the two brothers. In this new edition
of Book IX Dr Dewar accompanies the Latin text with apparatus
criticus, a translation, and an extensive introduction and
commentary. The introduction contains sections on Statius' life and
works, a summary of the epic, its themes and characters, and
poetry, the textual tradition, and Statius' influence on later
European literature. The commentary, the first on the ninth book to
be published in Britain this century, is written in the light of
recent scholarship. It examines in close detail Statius' style and
language, use of models (especially Homer, Hellenistic Greek
poetry, Virgil, Lucan, and Seneca), and literary intentions. It is
Dr Dewar's hope that this edition will help to explain the poem's
great popularity in the Middle Ages, and even restore something of
its lost prestige.
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