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Based upon three references to the poem in the Silvae, the Achilleid seems to have been composed between 94 and 96 CE. [1] At Silvae 4. 7. 21–24, Statius complains that he lacks the motivation to make progress upon his "Achilles" without the company of his friend C. Vibius Maximus who was travelling in Dalmatia (and to whom poem is addressed). [2]
Miller drew inspiration for this departure from the Achilleid by Statius, stating, "To me, the two have always resonated as peers, so that was the tradition I followed." [ 4 ] The Song of Achilles took Miller ten years to write; [ 1 ] [ 5 ] after discarding a completed manuscript five years into her writing, she started again from scratch, [ 1 ...
The poet's father (whose name is unknown) was a native of Velia but later moved to Naples and spent time in Rome where he taught with marked success. From boyhood to adulthood, Statius's father proved himself a champion in the poetic contests at Naples in the Augustalia and in the Nemean, Pythian, and Isthmian games, which served as important events to display poetic skill during the early empire.
The Achilleid, an unfinished epic by Statius, Achilleis being the Latin nominative of the title; The Achilleis byzantina, or "byzantine Achilleid", a 13th or 14th century Greek romance; see Byzantine literature; The Achilleis, an unfinished German poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes was the usual moment shown in art, here by Gérard de Lairesse. Rather than allow her son Achilles to die at Troy as prophesied, the nymph Thetis sent him to live at the court of Lycomedes, king of Skyros, disguised as another daughter of the king or as a lady-in-waiting, under the name Pyrrha "the red-haired", Issa, or Kerkysera.
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The Epic Cycle (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικὸς Κύκλος, romanized: Epikòs Kýklos) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems, composed in dactylic hexameter and related to the story of the Trojan War, including the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony.
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