The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid: Epic Distorted
Julene Abad Del Vecchio, "The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid: Epic Distorted"
English | ISBN: 0198895208 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0198895208 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions. By seeking to position at centre-stage these darker elements, the book offers several new readings of the Achilleid in relation to its literary inheritance, its gender dynamics, and its generic tensions. This volume delves beneath the surface of a story that ostensibly deals with a "light" subject matter-the cross-dressing of a young Achilles on Scyros-to carry out an in-depth examination of the poem's relationship to its epic and tragic precursors, and to explore its more serious themes. In this book, the poem is shown to challenge traditional epic narratives, and to display Achilles' complex familial relationships, as well as his transgressive and unique heroism. The
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