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Anticipation and Anachrony in Statius' Thebaid
Cover -- Half Title -- Publisher -- Title -- Copyright -- Content -- Preface -- Introduction: notum iter ad Thebas -- Prisca Nomina -- An Audience for Thebes -- Suspense, Anticipation, and Surprise -- Epic and Drama -- 1 Beginning with the End -- They Call Me Jocasta -- The Thebaid's Prologue -...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
, 2019
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| Series: | Criminal Practice Ser
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5844382 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Publisher -- Title -- Copyright -- Content -- Preface -- Introduction: notum iter ad Thebas -- Prisca Nomina -- An Audience for Thebes -- Suspense, Anticipation, and Surprise -- Epic and Drama -- 1 Beginning with the End -- They Call Me Jocasta -- The Thebaid's Prologue -- 2 Portentous Beginnings -- Argos and the Seeds of War -- Interlude: Eteocles' Dream (2.1-83) -- The Wedding Portents -- The Necklace of Harmonia -- Argia's Unease -- Amphiaraus and the Flight of Birds -- The Bacchant and the Necromancy -- 3 Hypsipyle and the Army at Nemea -- Hypsipyle's Lemnian Narrative -- The Death and Funeral of Opheltes -- Funeral Consolations -- 4 Jocasta -- Tisiphone's Fears -- Jocasta and Polynices -- Jocasta and Eteocles -- Chronology and Suspense -- Strategies of Elision -- Jocasta's Hope and Death -- 5 iam pater est -- The Curse -- Anticipation -- Outcome -- 6 Portentous Ends -- Amphiaraus -- Tydeus -- Hippomedon -- Parthenopaeus -- Capaneus -- Adrastus -- Menoeceus -- 7 hic imperat, ille minatur -- The Anonymous Critic -- The End of Polynices -- The End of Eteocles -- 8 Theseus and Concluding the Thebaid -- The Idalian Doves -- The Edict of Creon -- The Choices of Ornytus -- ubi incluta fama Antigone? -- The Twin Flames -- Choosing Theseus -- fidissime Phegeus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (219 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781350082588 |
