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Providing an in-depth analysis of Statius' Achilleid, an epic poem written in the 1st century A.D., this title explores the poem's relationship with its literary precursors and positions at centre-stage its darker elements, offering new readings of the Achilleid in relation to its literary inheritance, gender dynamics, and generic tensions.
Cover -- The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid: Epic Distorted -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editions -- Abbreviations -- Poetry -- Epigraph -- 1: Introduction: Charting a New Interpretation of Statius' Achilleid -- A Prelude to the Darker Reading -- Serious Business: A Double-Edged Ovidian Sword -- The Achilleid's nefas: A Mother's Tale (Revisited) -- Scope, Irony, and Expectations in the Achilleid's Proem -- Anticipation and Foreshadowing: Achilles' Death -- Compression and Cyclicality as Narrative Strategies
Magnanimus Achilles -- Jupiter's Absence -- 4: Tradunt dolos patres -- El siempre invencible griego, el nunca vencible Ulises -- Ulysses the Father -- Sophoclean Odysseus -- Ulysses' Manipulations -- Alternative Epic Traditions -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Ulysses, Hunter and Hound -- Ulysses the Reader -- Ulysses: The Achilleid's Fury? -- 5: Vatic Authority and Poetics -- Re-thinking Prophets -- Vatic Imposter Syndrome -- Setting the Prophetic Scene -- A Sibylline Seer -- Tremefactus vates -- Calchas' Vision -- Scit cetera mater -- A New Diva -- Thetis' Knowledge -- Seen It All Before
Postlude: 'An Epic of Problematics' -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]