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THE SEARCH FOR THE SELF IN STATIUS THEBAID - JE...

The aim of this project is to provide a sustained analysis of the concept of 'self' in Statius'
Thebaid. It is this project's contention that the poem is profoundly interested in ideas of
identity and selfhood. The poem stages itself as a metapoetic exploration of the difficulties
for a belated epicist in finding a place in the literary canon  it shows the impossibility of
squaring large-scale epic poetics with small-scale  finely-wrought Callimacheanism  it reflects
the violent disjunction between Statius' authorial pose as a poet without power and the extreme
violence of his poetics  it opens up the intricacies of constructing original  coherent
characters out of intertextual  exemplary models. The central tenet of the project is that
Statius in the Thebaid stages his own 'death'  but does so that his poem may live. This book is
intended for an academic audience including undergraduate and graduate students as well as
specialists in the field. Although the project will be of primary importance to readers of
Flavian literature  it will also be of interest to those who study intertextuality and
characterisation in Roman literature more generally  selfhood and identity in Roman literature
and culture and the reception of Roman literature.

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