Statius — The Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes)

Statius's The Thebaid is a Latin epic poem recounting the mythical war of the Seven Against Thebes. It is a significant example of post-Augustan epic poetry, influencing later European literature.

Sources for Statius — The Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes)

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• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001221399
• https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thebaid_(Statius)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thebaid_(Latin_poem)

Statius — The Thebaid (Seven Against Thebes) in Epics

Held in the Epics chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.

• Homer — The Iliad (−750)
• Homer — The Odyssey (−725)
• Epic of Gilgamesh (−2100)
• Virgil — The Aeneid (−19)
• Beowulf (anonymous, Old English) (1000)
• Vyasa (attrib.) — The Mahabharata (−400)
• Valmiki (attrib.) — The Ramayana (−500)
• Luo Guanzhong — Romance of the Three Kingdoms (San Kuo) (1400)
• Ferdowsi — Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings (1010)
• Elias Lönnrot (compiler) — The Kalevala (1849)
• Apollonius of Rhodes — The Argonautica (Jason and the Golden Fleece) (−250)
• Snorri Sturluson — The Prose Edda (1220)
• The Poetic Edda (anonymous, Old Norse) (1270)
• The Saga of the Volsungs (1270)
• Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley) (1100)
• The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (1450)
• The Book of Dede Korkut (1300)