eprintid: 6360
rev_number: 14
eprint_status: archive
userid: 3
dir: disk0/00/00/63/60
datestamp: 2024-07-30 12:26:10
lastmod: 2024-07-30 12:26:19
status_changed: 2024-07-30 12:26:10
type: preprint
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Busti, Francesco
title: Ire per omnes heroas: Statius’ Cyclic OEuvre
subjects: ddc-938
divisions: i-209
cterms_swd: Statius, Publius Papinius
cterms_swd: Trojanischer Krieg
abstract: Statius’ Achilleid is meant to “go through the entire hero” (1.4–5 ire per omnem / … heroa). This plan consists of re-singing a considerable portion of the poems from the archaic Greek Epic Cycle narrating the Trojan saga. It thus ensures a direct continuation of Statius’ first mythological epic poem, the Thebaid, whose subject engages in close dialogue with the part of the archaic Greek Epic Cycle dedicated to the Theban saga. This paper argues that Statius’ poetic engagement with both the Theban and the Trojan sagas amounts to an ambitious endeavour to create a new, distinctly Latin Epic Cycle re-singing the two wars that destroyed the race of heroes and, therefore, heralding the dawn of a new golden age under the banner of the Flavian dynasty.
date: 2024
publisher: Propylaeum
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/propylaeumdok.00006360
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-63605
language: eng
vgwort_code: 046989035cd74cea86ce3f4fed1fb649
bibsort: BUSTIFRANCIREPEROMNE2024
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
laender: R938
faecher: FAG
oa_type: gold
themen: T890
citation:   Busti, Francesco  (2024) Ire per omnes heroas: Statius’ Cyclic OEuvre.       
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/6360/1/Busti_Ire_per_omnes_heroas_2024.pdf