Julene Abad Del Vecchio

The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid (eBook, ePUB)

Epic Distorted

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an in-depth analysis of Statius' Achilleid, an epic poem written in the 1st century A.D. It 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198895220
• Artikelnr.: 72256024

Autorenporträt

Julene Abad Del Vecchio is Lecturer in Classical Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester. She has published articles and chapters on Flavian poetry, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and on the reception of classical literature in the works of the dramatists of the Spanish Golden Age. She has also worked as a Research Associate in the AHRC Ancient Letter Collections project.

Inhaltsangabe

Editions
Abbreviations
Introduction: Charting a New Interpretation of Statius' Achilleid
1: Leonine Achilles
2: Transgression and Excess
3: Tradunt Dolos Patres
4: Vatic Authority and Poetics
Postlude and#8211 'an epic of problematics'
Bibliography
Index