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Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid
Helen Lovatt
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Description for Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid
hardcover. Offers a new reading of Statius' Thebaid through an examination of the games in Book 6. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 604.
Epic games are more than just an interlude; they reflect the realities of epic: heroism, power and war. This first major study of the athletic games in Statius' Thebaid Book 6 uses them to produce a new reading of the poem as a whole. It explores each event in Statius' games, discussing intertextual manoeuvres, historical context and poetic positioning, developing a theme from each: audience power, cosmic disruption, national identity, masculinity and the body, games and war, kingship and narrative control. This book uses a close reading of one part of one text to range over ancient literature. It ... Read more
Epic games are more than just an interlude; they reflect the realities of epic: heroism, power and war. This first major study of the athletic games in Statius' Thebaid Book 6 uses them to produce a new reading of the poem as a whole. It explores each event in Statius' games, discussing intertextual manoeuvres, historical context and poetic positioning, developing a theme from each: audience power, cosmic disruption, national identity, masculinity and the body, games and war, kingship and narrative control. This book uses a close reading of one part of one text to range over ancient literature. It ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Classical Studies
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521847421
SKU
V9780521847421
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About Helen Lovatt
Helen Lovatt is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Nottingham. She has written numerous articles on Latin epic and its reception.
Reviews for Statius and Epic Games: Sport, Politics and Poetics in the Thebaid
'An excellent resource for the student of Statius, it is also a very useful consideration of epic games.' The London Association of Classical Teachers '… provides an illuminating presentation of the interconnection between games and war. … Lovatt's close reading of the Thebaid and its poetic predecessors has performed a valuable service, revealing the games of Book 6 as ... Read more