Statius: Achilleid
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Statius' Achilleid is perhaps the most remarkable of all Latin epic poems. Its project - to tell the whole life of Achilles - was cut short by the poet's untimely death. Yet the completed first book and the earliest part of the second have a charm and freshness matched only in some of Ovid's most lively and engaging work. The poem tells how the sea-nymph Thetis, in a vain attempt to save her son from his destined end in the Trojan war, hid him on...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1904675115
ISBN13:9781904675112
Release Date:June 2005
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Length:188 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.7" x 8.4"
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