The Poetry of Statius

208 LORENZO SANNA Hippolytus’ forma uirilis consists in a moderate display of strength and grace, in a kind of fusion of the eph ...

DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER 209 cum remeat tardumque ferit delphina Palaemon. Arma decent umeros, clipeusque insigni ...

210 LORENZO SANNA to oppose him and slowed his hand; that hand, however, drove home the wound thus hindered, and came to rest in ...

DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER 211 and as yet unprepared for conflict. Immaturity, imprudence, confusing war with play ...

212 LORENZO SANNA games. Crenaeus, just as Parthenopaeus, ends up by confusing war with games in a dramatic way and pays with hi ...

DUST, WATER AND SWEAT: THE STATIAN PUER 213 roditus (Met. 4.278–388), in view of some lexical and thematic choices,^42 but also ...

214 LORENZO SANNA but he ... went here and there and everywhere dipping just the tips of his feet, then up to his ankles, into t ...

STATIUS THEBAID 1.72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? THE TRADITION OF JOCASTA’S SUICIDE IN GREEK AND ROMAN DRAMA AND IN STATIUS’ THEB ...

216 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS Thebes. Subsequently, Jupiter in a council of the gods (197ff.) an- nounces his decision to destroy ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 217 firmasti, si stagna peti Cirrhaea bicorni interfusa iugo, possem cum degere ...

218 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS —pro dolor!—et nostro iamdudum funere reges insultant tenebris gemitusque odere paternos. (Theb. 1. ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 219 her former husband and the identity of Oedipus, her son and present husband, ...

220 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS Tradition of the myth To most modern readers, the tragic story of Oedipus’ life is probably best kn ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 221 this development is, however, limited. Hesiod knows the Sphinx and the plagu ...

222 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS famous vase from Volterra (LIMC V2, 1990, 458, nr 26). Unfortu- nately, no texts dealing with Jocas ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 223 Thebes, which is also the subject of Aeschylus’ Septem (staged in 467), she ...

224 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS In Seneca Phoen. 387–402 a servant informs Jocasta that the two armies are on the verge of battle; ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 225 It appears that the differences in setting and timing between these three ve ...

226 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS μητέρα τ’ Οἰδιπόδαο ἴδον, καλὴν ̓Επικάστην, ἣ μέγα ἔργον ἔρεξεν ἀϊδρείῃσι νόοιο γημαμένη ᾧ υἷϊ· ὁ δ ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 227 other. Her weapon was a sword taken from her sons, the target her throat: ἄμ ...