The Poetry of Statius

228 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS brooch (Trach. 924 πέπλον ᾧ χρυσήλατος προὔκειτο μαστῶν περονίς) and eight times in Euripides, only ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 229 account of Oedipus’ blinding himself, with his own fingers, as told by the m ...

230 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS [To Oedipus] Come now, lend your hand’s service to your mother, if you are a parricide: this task r ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 231 pauitante gressu sequere fallentes uias; suspensa plantis efferens uestigia ...

232 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS possible that Oedipus only seized the sword from his father yet killed him with his staff, as in OT ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 233 calling on Laius, now long a corpse, remembering their love-making long ago, ...

234 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS With these words, as we have seen above, Oedipus reminds the Fury of how he blinded himself and “le ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 235 from Sen. Oed. (A) he took the method, the destroying fingers re- placing t ...

236 JOHANNES J.L. SMOLENAARS Here, Jocasta uses this appallingly cruel phrase literally, in order to keep Eteocles from going to ...

STATIUS, THEB. 1 .72: IS JOCASTA DEAD OR ALIVE? 237 In his discussion of Phoin. 62, Mastronarde rejects the possibility that her ...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY 241 ——— (1999) ‘Mythological figures as spokespersons in Statius’ Silvae’, in: F. De Angelis and S. Muth (eds.), Im ...

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BIBLIOGRAPHY 243 ——— (2007) ‘“posteriores sed non deteriores”: the humanist perspective on Latin literature at the end of the qu ...

244 BIBLIOGRAPHY Henderson, J.G.W. (1991) ‘Statius’ Thebaid / Form Premade’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 3 ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY 245 Hutchinson, G.O. (2001) Greek Lyric Poetry, Oxford. Jebb, R.C. (1907) Sophocles, The Oedipus Coloneus, Cambridg ...

246 BIBLIOGRAPHY Mastronarde, D.J. (1978) ‘Are Euripides “Phoinissai” 1104–40 interpolated?’, Phoe- nix 32, 105–28. ——— (1994) E ...

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