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Thebaid (Latin poem)
The ''Thebaid'' (; Latin: ''Thēbaïs'') is a Latin epic in 12 books written in dactylic hexameter by Publius Papinius Statius (AD c. 45–c. 96). The poem deals with the Theban cycle and treats the assault of the seven champions of Argos against the city of Thebes.
==Composition==
Based on Statius' own testimony, the ''Thebaid'' was written AD c. 80–c. 92, beginning when the poet was around 35, and the work is thought to have been published in 91 or 92.〔Feeney, Dennis, ''The Oxford Classical Dictionary'' (Oxford, 1996), p. 1439.〕 According to the last verse of the poem,〔''Theb'' 12.811〕 Statius wrote the ''Thebaid'' over the course of a dozen years during the reign of Emperor Domitian, although the symmetry of the compositional period, assigning one book per year, has been taken with suspicion by scholars.〔Feeney, p. 1439.〕 The poem is divided into twelve books in imitation of Vergil's ''Aeneid'' 〔Shackleton-Bailey, D. R., ''Statius' Thebaid 1-7'' (Cambridge, 2003), p. 3.〕 and is composed in 9,748 hexameter verses, the standard meter of Greco-Roman epics. In the ''Silvae'', Statius speaks of his extensive work in polishing and revising the ''Thebaid'' 〔''Silv.'' 4.7.26.〕 and his public recitations of the poem.〔''Silv.'' 5.2.161.〕 From the epilogue〔''Theb.'' 810–19.〕 it seems clear that Statius considered the ''Thebaid'' to be his ''magnum opus'' and believed that it would secure him fame for the future.
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