Anticipation and Anachrony in Statius' Thebaid

Introduction: Notum iter ad Thebas
Prisca Nomina
An Audience for the Thebaid
Suspense, Anticipation, and Surprise
Epic and Drama

Chapter 1: Beginning with the End
They call me Jocasta
The Thebaid's Prologue

Chapter 2: Portentous Beginnings
Argos and the Seeds of War
The Wedding Portents
The Necklace of Harmonia
Argia's Unease
Amphiaraus and the Flight of Birds
The Bacchant and the Necromancy

Chapter 3: Hypsipyle and the Army at Nemea
Hypsipyle's Lemnian Narrative
The Death and Funeral of Opheltes
Funeral Consolations

Chapter 4: Jocasta
Tisiphone's Fears
Jocasta and Polynices
Jocasta and Eteocles
Chronology and Suspense
Strategies of Elision
Jocasta's Hope and Death

Chapter 5: Iam Pater Est
The Curse
Anticipation
Outcome

Chapter 6: Portentous Ends
Amphiaraus
Tydeus
Hippomedon
Parthenopaeus
Capaneus
Adrastus
Menoeceus

Chapter 7: Hic imperat, ille minatur
The Anonymous Critic
Polynices
Eteocles

Chapter 8: Concluding the Thebaid
The Idalian Doves
The Edict of Creon
The Choices of Oryntus
Ubi incluta fama Antigone?
The Twin Flames
Choosing Theseus
Fidissime Phegeus

Bibliography

Index

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