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03370aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 523C3110E6E711E7A3BFBD0A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171222010219 008 150611s2016 enka b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0199655332 020 $a 9780199655335 035 $a (OCoLC)911019328 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d BDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d DGU $d OCLCO $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 041 1 $a lat $a lat $h lat 050 4 $a PA6697.E5 $b T5 2016 082 04 $a 480 100 1 $a Statius, P. Papinius $q (Publius Papinius), $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016079201 240 10 $a Thebais. $n Liber 8 245 10 $a Statius, Thebaid 8 / $c edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary by Antony Augoustakis. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a lxxv, 449 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-390) and indexes. 520 8 $a Composed at the end of the first century CE, Statius' Thebaid recounts the civil war in Thebes between the two sons of Oedipus, Polynices and Eteocles, and the horrific events that take place on the battlefield. Its author, the Roman poet Statius, employed a wide variety of Greco-Roman sources in order to narrate the Argive expedition against Thebes and the fratricidal war. Book 8 opens with the descent of the Argive seer Amphiaraus to the Underworld through a chasm of the earth; the soldiers mourn their seer's loss and elect a successor, Thiodamas, who placates Earth (Tellus) through a prayer, before the opening of the second day of hostilities. The book reaches its climax when fierce Tydeus is mortally wounded and dies having committed an act of cannibalism by eating his opponent's brains; Minerva leaves the battlefield in disgust, taking away from her protege the intended gift of immortality. In this volume, Augoustakis presents the first full-length edition of Thebaid 8, with text and apparatus criticus, and an English translation. A detailed introduction discusses the Argive/Theban myth in the Greek and Roman literary tradition and art, as well as the reception of the book in subsequent centuries, especially in Dante's Divine Comedy. The accompanying commentary provides useful notes which explore questions of interpretation and Statius' language and literary craft, with particular emphasis on the exploitation of various Greek and Latin intertexts in Statius' poetry. 600 10 $a Statius, P. Papinius $q (Publius Papinius). $t Thebais. $n Liber 8. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016079201 650 0 $a Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) $v Poetry. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010112740 650 0 $a Epic poetry, Latin $v Translations into English. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103295 650 0 $a Epic poetry, Latin $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103293 655 7 $a Poetry. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026481 700 1 $a Statius, P. Papinius $q (Publius Papinius). $t Thebais. $n Liber 8. $l English. 700 1 $a Augoustakis, Antony, $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009067750 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171222054126.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=523C3110E6E711E7A3BFBD0A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search