Preview   This important book analyzes the (under-studied) Ovidian intertexts in Statius’ Thebaid.[1] The author explores how Statius’ references to Ovid interact with the prominent (and well-studied) intertexts with Vergil’s Aeneid. Spinelli argues that, on the purely literary level, these Ovidian-Vergilian intertexts are crucial for our understanding of Statius’ readings of both Augustan classics. Perhaps … Continue reading Statius and Ovid: poetics, politics, and intermediality in the Thebaid