Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Oedipus' curse
- 3 Horror, prophecy, and the gods
- 4 Hypsipyle's narrative of nefas
- 5 Bacchus and the outbreak of war
- 6 Dis and the domination of hell
- 7 Delay and the rout of Pietas
- 8 Spectacle, crime, and monarchy at Thebes
- 9 Pietas, burial, and clementia in a world of nefas
- Works cited
- General index
- Index locorum
General index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Oedipus' curse
- 3 Horror, prophecy, and the gods
- 4 Hypsipyle's narrative of nefas
- 5 Bacchus and the outbreak of war
- 6 Dis and the domination of hell
- 7 Delay and the rout of Pietas
- 8 Spectacle, crime, and monarchy at Thebes
- 9 Pietas, burial, and clementia in a world of nefas
- Works cited
- General index
- Index locorum
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- Statius and VirgilThe Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, pp. 243 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007