Tommaso Spinelli

Statius and Ovid

Poetics, Politics, and Intermediality in the Thebaid

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Moving beyond Virgil-centric readings of Statius' poetry, this book offers an innovative, intermedial, and Ovidian reading of the Thebaid, suggesting that the poem reworks both Virgil and Ovid's politically loaded myths and spatial narratives to scrutinise the new realities of Flavian Rome through the mythical story of Thebes"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781009282215
• ISBN-10: 1009282212
• Artikelnr.: 68319456

Autorenporträt

TOMMASO SPINELLI is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology at the University of Manchester and works for the UK Government as a Senior Learning Designer based in the Cabinet Office.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The post-Ovidian world of The Thebaid
2. Rewriting the foundational myths of Rome
3. Forging divinity, conceptualising power
4. Conclusion
5. Appendix
6. Bibliography
Index
Index locorum.