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Amphiaraus Sees The End or NO COMMENT ON WHAT THE GODS INTEND

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-Statius, Thebaid Book III (trans. Jane Wilson Joyce)

recently I read Jane Wilson Joyce’s translation of Statius’ Thebaid and I’m just so (screams for ten years) about all of it. so. Apmhiaraus and Apollo.

this isn’t how the actual scene itself goes, but more of an exploration of. you know. themes. or more accurately, the culmination of a bunch of thoughts/feelings I had while I was reading it. congrats, you’re favored by the gods! an esteemed seer from a family of seers. no one will heed your warnings because the forces at play eclipse mortal lives. what’s a human being to a plague? what’s a human being to a god that behaves the way that it does. you know you’ve been betrayed. violence devours violence devours violence. a cursed house brought all of you onto the stage against your will because it’s a plague, it’s war, it’s an infection, and you cannot exit the scene because the infection will take everyone, the events that set this in motion happened both now, somewhere else, and long before you had a say in any of it. you don’t want to die, but you’re favored by the gods! so you will be spared/denied a natural death to preserve your honor (there’s a moratorium on burials, so even if you died like the rest, it would still be wrong), and the site where you fell into the underworld will become sacred ground. you never wanted to be here in the first place.

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book vii

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intro to book ix

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intro to book viii

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