Excerpt from The Thebaid of Statius, Vol. 2: Translated Into English Verse, With Notes and Observations Army, finds Mercury to Mars to command him to forward th

A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus—Polynices and Eteocles—for control of the cit

Fraternal strife, and the young Achilles. Statius published his Thebaid in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the t