Preview   This book “systematically explores, for the first time, the darker aspects of Statius’ Achilleid, bringing to light the poem’s tragic and epic dimensions.” This monograph adds to those of Heslin (2005), Fantuzzi (2012), Bitto (2016) and more recently Sigurjónsson (2023),[1] but it is the first to undertake an extensive examination of the relationships … Continue reading The dark side of Statius’ Achilleid: epic distorted