GENERAL INDEX 267
guest: 149–50, 162, 163
individualised: 149, 162–3,
164
Neapolitan: 155, 156, 163,
165–6, 167, 170
old man: 157, 165–6, 169,
173
own opinions: 174
representative subject, ~ of
the (official) consensus:
145–9, 151, 173
Roman style in book 4: 166
ships: 57–8
shrine to Hercules: 38–9
subject matter vs. style: 28–9
Via Domitiana: 39–42
viva voce communication: 30
writing strategy: 29
(see also Ecus Maximus, epi-
taphs, Grotius, inscriptions,
propaganda)
Thebaid
and Aeschylus: 114–5, 121
and Athenian patriotic oratory:
122–3
and Callimachus: 117–8
and historiography: 105
and Euripides: 111–5, 117, 119–
20, 121, 126–8, 224, 235
and Homer: 88–90, 94–5, 96–7,
99, 101–2, 138
and Horace: 179–80
and Hyginus: 117
and Lucan: 91–4, 104, 106, 107,
185–9
and Ovid: 132, 133, 136–7, 179–
80, 188–9, 207–8, 212–4
and Seneca: 113, 224–5, 231–2,
235
and Silius: 104, 106, 107
and Sophocles: 111–22, 126–8,
218, 225, 232–3, 235
emphasised deviation from:
113, 116–8, 119–20, 126–
8
and tragedy: 111–22
and Valerius Flaccus: 197–9
and Virgil: 86–8, 94–6, 98, 99,
101–2, 138, 175–9, 193, 233
succession of ~ by Statius:
177–8, 179, 193
(see also deification)
Alcidamas: 197–9
Antigone: 225
see also under Statius’ The-
baid: Argia
Argia: 114–20
and Antigone: 116–9
aristeia of: 115
as a second Antigone: 115–8
epic machinery applied to:
115, 118
as a framework for reflection on
transition of power: 182
as an educational work: 178–9
as canonical text: 178–9
Athens and Rome: 123–6, 128
battle narrative in: 85–109
alternative approach to: 93–5,
98, 100–2
anachronisms in: 103–7
aristeia of Agylleus and Ac-
tor: 94
aristeia of Amphiaraus: 89–
90
aristeia of Parthenopaeus:
202
aristeia of Thiodamas: 93–4
dawn/dusk and book-
divisions: 96–8, 108
dawn and outset of battle: 96
density of coverage: 86–96
fading in and out: 98–9
foreshortening of: 86–7, 88–
90, 95–6
from different perspectives:
94
historical warfare in: 103–7
little individual combat: 89–
91
maintaining interest in: 86–7
outbreak of fighting: 87–8
rapidly narrated killings: 88–
90
Crenaeus: 208–12, 213–4
crossing genres in: 119–20
divine council: 130
Domitian: 175, 177, 179–93
and Phaethon: 186–93 (see
also under Statius’ The-
baid: Phaethon)
appreciation by: 177
