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Statius and epic games : = sport, politics, and poetics in the Thebaid /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Statius and epic games :/ Helen Lovatt.
Reminder of title:	sport, politics, and poetics in the Thebaid /
remainder title:	Statius & Epic Games
Author:	Lovatt, Helen,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) in literature. -
Subject:	Thebes (Greece) - In literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482274
ISBN:	9780511482274 (ebook)

Statius and epic games : = sport, politics, and poetics in the Thebaid /
Lovatt, Helen,1974-

Statius and epic games :sport, politics, and poetics in the Thebaid /Statius & Epic GamesHelen Lovatt. - 1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge classical studies. - Cambridge classical studies..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The chariot race. Epic games and real games -- The running. Audiences -- The discus. Gigantomachy -- The boxing. National identity -- The wrestling. Bodies -- The sword fight. Games and war -- The archery. Controlling the narrative.

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 casts light on the tradition of games in ancient epic as a whole, examining the works of Homer, Virgil, Apollonius, Ovid and Lucan. It is essential reading for the student of Statius and of ancient epic and of interest to historians of Roman society with an interest in sport and spectacle.

ISBN: 9780511482274 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

1378354
Statius, P. Papinius
Thebais.Subjects--Topical Terms:

800889
Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) in literature.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

800886
Thebes (Greece)
--In literature.

LC Class. No.: PA6698 / .L68 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 873/.01

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