The War with God: Theomachy in Roman Imperial Poetry by Pramit Chaudhuri
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Overview: Epic and tragedy, from Homer’s Achilles and Euripides’ Pentheus to Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and Milton’s Satan, are filled with characters challenging and warring against the gods. Nowhere is the theme of theomachy more frequently and powerfully represented, however, than in the poetry of early imperial Rome, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the beginning of the first century AD to Statius’ Thebaid near its end. This book – the first full-length study of human-divine conflict in Roman literature – asks why the war against god was so important to the poets of the time and how this understudied period of literary history influenced a larger tradition in Western literature.
Genre: Fiction, Poetry
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