Thebaid, Volume II

Name: Thebaid, Volume II
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Books 8-12. Achilleid

By: Statius, D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 February 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles.

Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two sons of Oedipus for the kingship of Thebes is his masterpiece, a stirring exploration of the passions of civil war. The extant portion of his unfinished Achilleid is strikingly different in tone: this second epic begins as a charming account of Achilles' life.

Statius was raised in the Greek cultural milieu of the Bay of Naples, and his Greek literary education is reflected in his poetry. The political realities of Rome in the first century are also evident in the Thebaid, in representations of authoritarian power and the drive for domination. Shackleton Bailey's new edition of the two epics, with a highly skillful translation, addresses a number of puzzles in the text and its interpretation and provides essential information on mythological and other references. Kathleen M. Coleman, Professor of Latin at Harvard University, contributes a survey of recent scholarship on Statius' epics.

The new Loeb Classical Library edition of Statius is complete in three volumes.

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