The Thebaid exploits the literary geography of a cursed city and explores the perturbations of nature as the correlative of a perverse world. Tisiphone upsets the landscape of Thebes and the mind of the brothers; Polynices’ journey draws a mythical map full of memories and dire premonitions; the storm is a metaphor for the chaos of passions in the hero’s soul. The come and go between Hell and Earth prompts borderline descriptions and paradoxical views. Literary codifications are distorted: the perversion of the bucolic setting casts bad omens on the Nemean episode. Landscape is a space for stylistic experimentation: Statius’ paradoxical style constructs the image of an estranged world.
Passions, perversions, paradoxes: the landscape of nefas in the Thebaid
Federica Bessone
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Abstract
The Thebaid exploits the literary geography of a cursed city and explores the perturbations of nature as the correlative of a perverse world. Tisiphone upsets the landscape of Thebes and the mind of the brothers; Polynices’ journey draws a mythical map full of memories and dire premonitions; the storm is a metaphor for the chaos of passions in the hero’s soul. The come and go between Hell and Earth prompts borderline descriptions and paradoxical views. Literary codifications are distorted: the perversion of the bucolic setting casts bad omens on the Nemean episode. Landscape is a space for stylistic experimentation: Statius’ paradoxical style constructs the image of an estranged world.
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