DOI: 10.1017/s175027052610030x ISSN: 1750-2705

Nefas Unleashed: Reading Sophocles in Statius’ Thebaid

Konstantinos Arampapaslis

Abstract

The intertextual relationship between Flavian poetry and Greek literature has been of increasing scholarly interest in recent years. 1 Statius, specifically, adopted and reworked several themes which are central to Greek drama, not to mention the influence the latter exerted on his character sketching, descriptions, motifs and poetic art in general. 2

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