Statius and Ovid: Poetics, Politics, and Intermediality in the Thebaid

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Texts and Translations
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
	The Author of the Thebaid
	The Plot of the Thebaid
	The Thebaid ’s Proem and the Metamorphoses
	Between Semantic Intertextuality and Intermediality
	Discit memoratque iuventus: Reading the Thebaid
	Intertextual Politics and the Socio-Cultural Landscape of Rome
Chapter 1 The Post-Ovidian World of the Thebaid
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Reading Landscapes in Latin Poetry
	1.3 Statius’ Ovidian Landscapes between Poetic Memory and Authorial Authority
	1.4 Reworking the Geopolitics of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Flavian Rome
	1.5 A Chaotic Universe: The Thebaid’s Ovidian Flood and Desertification
		1.5.1 The Storm
		1.5.2 The Desertification
	1.6 Hell on Earth
	1.7 The Deceptiveness of Statius’ Ovidian Landscapes
	1.8 Conclusion
Chapter 2 Rewriting the Foundational Myths of Rome
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 The Thebaid’s Ovidian Heroes: Remembering or Reviving the Past?
	2.3 Reading the Politics of the Thebaid’s Hero-Making Narratives in Light of Imperial Epic
	2.4 (Un)Making Cosmos: The Thebaid’s Ovidian Monster-Killing Narratives
		2.4.1 The Gorgon and the Hydra
		2.4.2 New Gigantomachic Fights: Capaneus and Hippomedon
		2.4.3 Literary and Intermedial Politics of the Thebaid’s Gigantomachic Narratives
	2.5 Disappointing Providence: Adrastus’ Aetiological Tale
	2.6 Kingship in the Thebaid: Going beyond Ovid’s Cadmean Pattern
		2.6.1 Adrastus, Tydeus, and Polynices
		2.6.2 Eteocles and Polynices
		2.6.3 Theseus
		2.6.4 Reading the Thebaid’s Dysfunctional Kingships in Flavian Rome
	2.7 Conclusion
Chapter 3 Forging Divinity, Conceptualising Power
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Statius’ Ovidian Gods and the Readers’ Cosmic Anxiety
	3.3 The Intertextual Politics of Statius’ Divine Council
	3.4 Visualising Imperial Power: From Ovid’s Heavenly Palatine to Statius’ Royal Palace
	3.5 The Thebaid’s Divine Society: From Ovidian gravitas to Statian maiestas
	3.6 Jupiter and Domitian
	3.7 The King’s Speech: Visualising the Inner Workings of Flavian Power
	3.8 Conclusion
Conclusion
	Reassessing the Post-Ovidian Nature of the Thebaid
Appendix
References
Index Locorum
General Index