Thebaid ; Achilleid /

• Main Author: Στάτιος, Πόπλιος Παπίνιος (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Shackleton Bailey, D. R. 1917-2005 (David Roy) (επιμελητής, μεταφραστής.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English; Latin
• Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2003.
• Series: Loeb Classical Library 207, 498.
• Subjects: Αχιλλέας (Μυθολογία); Ετεοκλής (Μυθολογία); Πολυνείκης (Μυθολογία); Θήβα (Ελλάδα) > Ποίηση.; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία; Επική ποίηση, Λατινική

Greek literary education and Roman political reality are evident in the poetry of Statius (c. 50-96 CE). His Silvae are thirty-two occasional poems. His masterpiece, the epic Thebaid, recounts the struggle for kingship between the two sons of Oedipus. The extant portion of his Achilleid begins an ac...

Table of Contents:

• v. I. Thebaid, Books 1-7
• v. II. Thebaid, Books 8-12. Achilleid.