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STATIUS AND THE THEBAID
by Vessey, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0521200520
- ISBN 13
- 9780521200523
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0521200520 . DJ is price-clipped. Top of spine is bumped. Mild soiling to DJ. ; Combats the common notion that the Thebaid is an exercise in anachronism, an episodic narrative of the Theban saga. He shows that the poem can and indeed must be reat as an elaborate and sustained allegory of the emotions-- a study in the extremes of human behaviour. ; 366 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2275
- Title
- STATIUS AND THE THEBAID
- Author
- Vessey, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0521200520
- ISBN 13
- 9780521200523
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- 0521200520, Statius, Thebaid, Classical Greek & Roman, Latin Literature
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