Abstract:Moving beyond traditionally Virgil-centric readings of the Thebaid, this article argues that Statius programmatically acknowledges the role that the Metamorphoses plays in his poem, by opening the Thebaid with an Argive narrative (Theb. 1.312-2.743) entirely modelled on the Ovidian Perseid (Met. 4.610-5.249). By exploring how a "conflictive" Virgilian-Ovidian intertextuality informs the Thebaid's Argos narrative, I show how Statius develops Ovid's intertextual technique both to competitively renegotiate his re… Show more
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