Or persist in the delusion, aware that's what it is? There is a popular subject in 15th-century painting called the Thebaid. The Thebaid was the area of Egypt around its ancient capital ...

At the end of the Thebaid, Statius enjoins his epic 'not to competewith the divine Aeneid but rather to follow at a distance and alwaysrevere its footprints'. The nature of the Thebaid's interaction ...

His "Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes" ($55) will be published by John Hopkins University Press in December. Statius' epic strongly influenced European literature, Ross says. It also provides an apt ...

THERE is an old saying that all good science is shorthand common sense. I am sorry that Prof. Arthur Thompson does not think it worth his while in the case of his just published far-reaching ...

TheRoman poet P. Papinius Statius (ca. 45-96) is the author of two epics(the Thebaid and the unfinished Achilleid) and a large corpus ofoccasional verse (Silvae). This poetry, long seen as derivative ...

But then everyone needed a reasonable excuse for being away from home. The streets were a desert like the Thebaid of St Anthony, stark and thinly peopled by centaurs and satyrs. Now that we’re ...

The Weaping Meadow is the first film of a Trilogy, and is set in Greece between 1919 and 1949. It begins with the entry of the Red Army into Odessa, the flight of the Greek community and the end of ...

A photography exhibition called “The Heart of the Northern Thebaid” has opened at the Russian Science and Culture Center in Rome. Archbishop of Vologda and Veliky Ustyug Maximilian is the author of ...