Mythographical and Literary Notes on the Catalogs of Argive and Theban Allies in Statius' Thebaid.

This article argues, in a series of discrete but interconnected notes, that Statius engages consistently and consciously with mythographical works--prose collections and exegesis on myth as myth--in the creation of his two major catalogs in the Thebaid, the catalog of Argive allies at 4.1-344 and th...

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Publicado en:Mnemosyne Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 240 - 262
Autor principal: Smith, R. Scott
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2017
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