TY - BOOK ID - 135884708 TI - Aurores et Crépuscules Dans la Thébaïde de Stace PY - 2023 SN - 9004537155 PB - Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv, DB - UniCat KW - Twilight. KW - Statius, P. Papinius KW - Dawn in literature. KW - Twilight in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135884708 AB - "This book offers an intertextual study of dawn and dusk descriptions in Statius' Thebaid. Poetic images such as rosy-fingered Dawn and the fiery chariot of the Sun sinking into the Ocean are the result of learned work on the previous literary tradition. The striking dawn and dusk descriptions in the Thebaid offer a perfect illustration of the way in which the traditional characteristics of the motif can be remodelled to produce new meaning. Each chapter in this monograph examines one of the aspects associated with dawns and dusks: formulaic diction, structuring role, relation to time and light, allegory"-- ER -