EAN: 9783111265865

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The aim of this project is to provide a sustained analysis of the concept of 'self' in Statius' Thebaid. It is this project's contention that the poem is profoundly interested in ideas of identity and selfhood. The poem stages itself as a metapoetic exploration of the difficulties for a belated epicist in finding a place in the literary canon it shows the impossibility of squaring large-scale epic poetics with small-scale finely-wrought Callimacheanism it reflects the violent disjunction between Statius' authorial pose as a poet without power and the extreme violence of his poetics it opens up the intricacies of constructing original coherent characters out of intertextual exemplary models. The central tenet of the project is that Statius in the Thebaid stages his own 'death' but does so that his poem may live. This book is intended for an academic audience including undergraduate and graduate students as well as specialists in the field. Although the project will be of primary importance to readers of Flavian literature it will also be of interest to those who study intertextuality and characterisation in Roman literature more generally selfhood and identity in Roman literature and culture and the reception of Roman literature.

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