Epic precedence : Statius’ Thebaid and its intertextual links to the Iliad of Homer
This thesis explores the intertextual relationship of Statius' Thebaid with Homer's Iliad. It is an uneasy relationship. wavering between playful competition and the nihilistic sense that a competition taken to such hyperbolic levels is self-destructive, corresponding with the issue at the...
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University of Nottingham
2013
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.594601 |