Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War

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 ...