Bøger af Helen (University of Nottingham) Lovatt

Explores ideas of vision, gender and power from Homer to Nonnus, Virgil to Silius Italicus. Readers of epic and students of ancient society will profit from this wide-ranging investigation. An eclectic array of theoretical perspectives illuminates central aspects of a key genre in Greek and Roman literature and culture.

Epic games reflect the realities of epic: heroism, power and war. This first major examination of the games in Statius' Thebaid offers a new reading of the poem as a whole. General consideration is also given to the tradition of games in ancient epic, from Homer to Lucan.