Tradunt dolos patres | The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid: Epic Distorted (2024)

The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid: Epic Distorted

Julene Abad Del Vecchio

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2024

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9780191997754

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9780198895206

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The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid: Epic Distorted

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Abad Del Vecchio, Julene, 'Tradunt dolos patres', The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid: Epic Distorted (Oxford, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 July 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198895206.003.0004, accessed 5 Aug. 2024.

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Abstract

This chapter explores in detail the figure of Ulysses in the poem. It challenges the accepted scholarly premise that Ulysses is a positive father-figure for Achilles. In the first half of the chapter, novel parallels between Ulysses in the Achilleid and Odysseus in Sophocles’ Philoctetes are presented. In identifying Sophocles’ Philoctetes as key intertext for Statius, Ulysses’ manipulation is put on view, as well as the more ominous, recruiting element of the Greeks’ mission on Scyros. The second half of the chapter looks to build on the seriousness and dangerousness of the figure of Ulysses in Statius, and it thus analyses the pervasive associations of Ulysses with violence in a number of similes in the narrative. The chapter then moves on to an arresting and gender-bending equivalence of Ulysses as a metapoetic force of furor, akin to well-known Furies in the literary tradition, offering novel reflections on gender and poetic authority in the poem.

Keywords: Achilles, Ulysses, Neoptolemus, Sophocles, Philoctetes, father-figure, tragedy, wolf similes, metapoetics, Seneca’s Troades

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Classical Literature Classical Poetry

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The Dark Side of Statius’ Achilleid: Epic Distorted. Julene Abad Del Vecchio, Oxford University Press. © Julene Abad Del Vecchio 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198895206.003.0004

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