Chiron teaching Achilles how to play the lyre, a Roman fresco from Herculaneum, 1st century AD.
Written
c. 94—96 CE
Language
Latin
Genre(s)
Epic Poetry
Meter
Hexameter
Lines
1,127
The Achilleid (/ˌækɪˈliːɪd/; Latin: Achillēis) is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth to his death at Troy. Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death. What remains is an account of the hero's early life with the centaur Chiron, and an episode in which his mother, Thetis, disguised him as a girl on the island of Scyros, before he joined the Greek expedition against Troy.
The Achilleid (/ˌækɪˈliːɪd/; Latin: Achillēis) is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles...
collection of occasional poetry, the Silvae; and an unfinished epic, the Achilleid. He is also known for his appearance as a guide in the Purgatory section...
Statius (a roman poet of the 1st century AD) in his unfinished work, the Achilleid, although Homer clearly contradicts him. According to Ptolemy Hephaestion...
with an arrow. Later legends (beginning with Statius' unfinished epic Achilleid, written in the 1st century AD) state that Achilles was invulnerable in...
down in detail in some later versions of the story, particularly the Achilleid by the Roman poet Statius. The story of how Achilles disguised himself...
Achilles, Odysseus and several other Achaean leaders are described in the Achilleid as having gone to Skyros to find him. Odysseus discovered Achilles by...
love relation and argued it was a later interpolation. Statius in the Achilleid states that Achilles and Patroclus were either within the same age group...
Greek text available from the same website. Publius Papinius Statius, The Achilleid translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge,...
"frolicking" Oceanid-companions when she was abducted by Hades. According to the Achilleid, written by the Roman poet Statius in the 1st century AD, when Achilles...
MachineStatius, Thebaid2, 134–150 P. Papinius Statius (2007). Thebaid and Achilleid (PDF). Vol. II. Translated by A. L. Ritchie; J. B. Hall. Collaboration...
Cynegetica, I. 375. Plautus, Captivi, 86. Seneca, Phaedra, 33. Statius, Achilleid, I. 747. Statius, Silvae, II. VI. 19. Statius, Thebaid, III. 203. Ovid...
The Achilleid, an unfinished epic by Statius, Achilleis being the Latin nominative of the title The Achilleis byzantina, or "byzantine Achilleid", a 13th...
English Translation by J. H. Mozley, Volume II, Thebaid, Books V–XII, Achilleid, Loeb Classical Library No. 207, London: William Heinemann, Ltd., New...
older than Achilles. Miller drew inspiration for this departure from the Achilleid by Statius, stating that "to me, the two have always resonated as peers...
Harvard University Press. Statius, Thebaid, Volume II: Thebaid: Books 8-12. Achilleid. Edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Loeb Classical Library...
Archived 21 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Alluded to in Statius, Achilleid 1.269–270 Archived 15 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Hyginus, Fabulae...
the infant Demophoon). In a variant of the myth first recounted in the Achilleid, an unfinished epic written between 94 and 95 AD by the Roman poet Statius...
David R., translator. Broken Columns: Two Roman Epic Fragments: The Achilleid of Publius Papinius Statius and The Rape of Proserpine of Claudius Claudianus...
English Translation by J. H. Mozley, Volume II, Thebaid, Books V–XII, Achilleid, Loeb Classical Library No. 207, London: William Heinemann, Ltd., New...
Harvard University Press. Statius, Thebaid, Volume II: Thebaid: Books 8-12. Achilleid, edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Loeb Classical Library...
Epistulae ex Ponto (c. 13-16) Statius, Thebaid (c. 90), Silvae (c. 93–96) and Achilleid (c. 94–96, unfinished) Zhang Heng (78-139), Eastern Han Ban Gu (32-92)...
Younger: Phaedra, Dialogues Statius: Thebaid; also Silvae and unfinished Achilleid Egyptian: Oracle of the Lamb Chinese: Shuowen Jiezi: Ancient Dictionary...
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