Statius, Thebaid 2
Subtitle: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 16, 2017
Language: eng; lat
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780198744702
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Statius, Thebaid 2: Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary