Statius, Thebaid 2 / edited with an introduction, translation, and commentary by Kyle Gervais.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Latin Original language: Latin Edition: First EditionDescription: liii, 374 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198744702
  • 0198744706
Other title:
  • Statius, Thebaid II
  • Statius, Thebaid two
  • Thebaid 2
  • Thebaid two
Contained works:
  • Statius, P. Papinius Thebais. Liber 2
  • Statius, P. Papinius Thebais. Liber 2. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 871/.01 23
LOC classification:
  • PA6697.A4 G47 2017
Summary: This volume represents the first full-length scholarly commentary in English on Book 2 of the twelve-book Latin epic, greatly expanding on and updating Mulder's Latin language commentary published in 1954 by Groningen. An extensive introduction covers the poem's historical, textual, and literary contexts, with particular attention to Statius' adaptation of prior literary tradition and especially the epics of Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus. The Latin text, accompanied by a clear translation and apparatus criticus, is newly edited to take advantage of the recent detailed editorial work on the poem by Hall, Ritchie, and Edwards and is supplemented by a comprehensive and incisive line-by-line commentary which addresses a range of textual, linguistic, and literary topics. The result is a keenly focused yet accessible critical edition that will be of interest both to specialist scholars of Latin poetry and to advanced graduate students studying Flavian epic.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-351) and indexes.

This volume represents the first full-length scholarly commentary in English on Book 2 of the twelve-book Latin epic, greatly expanding on and updating Mulder's Latin language commentary published in 1954 by Groningen. An extensive introduction covers the poem's historical, textual, and literary contexts, with particular attention to Statius' adaptation of prior literary tradition and especially the epics of Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, and Silius Italicus. The Latin text, accompanied by a clear translation and apparatus criticus, is newly edited to take advantage of the recent detailed editorial work on the poem by Hall, Ritchie, and Edwards and is supplemented by a comprehensive and incisive line-by-line commentary which addresses a range of textual, linguistic, and literary topics. The result is a keenly focused yet accessible critical edition that will be of interest both to specialist scholars of Latin poetry and to advanced graduate students studying Flavian epic.

Text in Latin, with facing English translation; critical material in English.

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