Statius and Virgil : the Thebaid and the reinterpretation of the Aeneid / Randall T. Ganiban.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-242) and indexes.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The thebaid and the aeneid -- Statian intertextuality -- The coroebus narrative -- Pietas and Nefas -- Coroebus and the aeneid -- Coroebus and augustan ideology -- Adrastus and the problem of pietas -- Chapter 2 Oedipus' curse -- Oedipus and the virgilian juno -- The poetics of nefas -- Oedipus' curse -- Oedipus, dis, and tisiphone -- Chapter 3 Horror, prophecy, and the gods -- The prologue: foregrounding the crimes of the war -- Jupiter's (mis)representations of the fraternal war -- Prophecy and intertext at argos -- Prophecy and nefas at thebes -- "Tu peior, tu cede": rewriting the prophetic past -- Statius' Laius -- Chapter 4 Hypsipyle's narrative of nefas -- Introducing hypsipyle: aeneas, pietas, and the allure of nefas -- Hypsipyle's narrative and the defeat of virgilian pietas -- Hypsipyle's narrative i : the lemnian massacre and hypsipyle's aeneas -- Bacchus and the Virgilian Venus -- "Becoming" Dido -- Hypsipyle's narrative i i : the argonauts -- Hypsipyle and the death of pietas -- Chapter 5 Bacchus and the outbreak of war -- Bacchus and virgil's juno in thebaid 4 -- Bacchus and virgil's juno in thebaid 7 -- Bacchus and ovid's juno -- Bacchus, jupiter, and virgil's venus in thebaid 7 -- Bacchus' defeat and the power of virgil's allecto -- The power of statius' virgilian fury -- Chapter 6 Dis and the domination of hell -- Plot, divine strife, and dis' call for nefas -- Tydeus' crime -- The deaths of hippomedon and parthenopaeus, and the helplessness of the superi -- Hopleus and dymas: the problem of pietas -- Menoeceus and capaneus -- The death of capaneus -- Tisiphone, nefas, and the ascendancy of hell -- Chapter 7 Delay and the rout of Pietas -- Tisiphone as juno: megaera as allecto -- The theme of delay -- Jocasta's delay -- Antigone's delay -- Adrastus' delay -- The rout of pietas -- Chapter 8 Spectacle, crime, and monarchy at Thebes -- The spectacle of nefas: watching the rout of jupiter -- The duel and oedipal madness in the thebaid -- The duel: death and transformation -- Oedipus, creon, and the nefas of theban kingship -- The furies and kingship -- Chapter 9 Pietas, burial, and clementia in a world of nefas -- Antigone, argia, and creon's burial prohibition -- Interpreting theseus -- The altar of clementia and roman clementia -- Seneca on clementia -- Theseus, clementia, and moral confusion -- Thebaid 11 and 12 -- Thebaid 12 and aeneid 12 -- From pietas to clementia -- Works cited -- General index -- Index locorum -- Last Page.