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Epic games are more than just an interlude; they reflect the realtities of epic: heroism, power and war. This study of the athletic games in Statius' Thebiad Book 6 uses them to produce a new reading of the poem as a whole.Lovatt, Helen is the author of 'Statius And Epic Games Sport, Politics And Poetics In The Thebaid', published 2005 under ISBN 9780521847421 and ISBN 0521847427.
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