The Poetry of Statius

108 BRUCE GIBSON Similarly, we find Statius offering his own response to the conven- tional epic divisions of time into days and ...

BATTLE NARRATIVE IN STATIUS, THEBAID 109 of Statius’ process of setting up his own epic alongside its competi- tors, whether rec ...

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STATIUS AND THE GREEK TRAGEDIANS ON ATHENS, THEBES AND ROME P. J. Heslin The Thebaid of Statius ends with a pointed contrast bet ...

112 P. J. HESLIN Statius. As we will see, Statius in fact plays quite overtly on the fame of Sophocles’ Antigone, and from this ...

STATIUS AND TRAGEDY ON ATHENS, THEBES AND ROME 113 The question asked here, “does it matter where Oedipus dies?”, is about as go ...

114 P. J. HESLIN Is.] That they may settle you near the land of Thebes, to have you in their power, but your foot would not cros ...

STATIUS AND TRAGEDY ON ATHENS, THEBES AND ROME 115 At this crossroads, Statius’ narrative diverges, just as the versions of Aesc ...

116 P. J. HESLIN paradigmatic single-mindedness to Argia. After Argia discovers the body of Polynices, it is she who brings up t ...

STATIUS AND TRAGEDY ON ATHENS, THEBES AND ROME 117 cedo, tene, pudet heu! pietas ignaua sororis! haec prior—! (Stat. Theb. 12.38 ...

118 P. J. HESLIN this point.^15 The best we can say is that the prominence given to Argia and the story of the divided pyre pres ...

STATIUS AND TRAGEDY ON ATHENS, THEBES AND ROME 119 If we peek ahead for a moment, we find that after Athens the scene returns ag ...

120 P. J. HESLIN must make us think of Sophocles’ Antigone, even as the presence of Argia and the mission of Phegeus signal that ...

STATIUS AND TRAGEDY ON ATHENS, THEBES AND ROME 121 power would be far removed, so that Fortune would depart from this righteous ...

122 P. J. HESLIN emplify something intrinsic to the spirit of Athens as expressed in dramas by each of its three great playwrigh ...

STATIUS AND TRAGEDY ON ATHENS, THEBES AND ROME 123 ocrates’ panegyric of Athens links the suppliant children of Heracles with th ...

124 P. J. HESLIN contemporary Rome. By emphasizing Athens’ origins as an asylum, he makes it parallel to Romulus’ settlement. He ...

STATIUS AND TRAGEDY ON ATHENS, THEBES AND ROME 125 primus amor niueis uictorem cernere uectum quadriiugis; nec non populos in se ...

126 P. J. HESLIN mere hubris and lust (5.2). Statius, in stark contrast, gives us a The- seus who is a close parallel for Romulu ...

STATIUS AND TRAGEDY ON ATHENS, THEBES AND ROME 127 It’s not with girls carrying tiny little shields that you do battle here; do ...