Author: VESSEY, DAVID
Title: Statius and the Thebaid
Description: Cambridge University Press, 1973. Hardcover. ISBN: 0521200520. Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Light rubbing to DJ. ; Combats the common notion that the Thebaid is an exercise in anachronism, an episodic narrative of the Theban saga. He shows that the poem can and indeed must be reat as an elaborate and sustained allegory of the emotions-- a study in the extremes of human behaviour. ; 366 pages. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0521200520 Statius Thebaid Classical Greek & Roman Latin Literature


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