Revised versions of 11 presentations to a conference in Amsterdam (no date noted) examine how Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius (45-96) adapted and transformed traditional epic techniques and
motifs, his creative imitation of tragic and other texts, and the reception of his poems in European literature and scholarship. Most of the papers deal with his epic Thebaid, but some consider
the unfinished epic Achilleid and the collection of occasional verse Silvae. Quotations are in the original with English translation following. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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