Offers the first book-length examination of Statius' unfinished epic, the Achilleid.

Tracing the escapades of Achilles' erotic history - whether in same-sex or opposite-sex relationships - this book explains how these relationships were develope

Statius' unfinished epic, the Achilleid, explores Achilles' mother's attempt to save her son from the Trojan War by dressing him as a girl. This first book-leng

Examines how the tragic dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address the concerns of their time.

This book provides vocabulary and commentary to Statius' unfinished epic poem Achilleid ("[The book or story] of Achilles"), which was intended to tell the life