The Thebaid was the area of Egypt around its ancient ... It's a kind of pictorial map. The landscape is shown in a tipped-up, stacked-up arrangement. Everything, though apparently receding ...

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 ...