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...