... traditions Aeacus magnanimus Muse Calliope Erato Ilias Latina Valerius Flaccus Maternal Glaucus Diomedes Dirce nefas Lament Crenaeus and his mother Hippomedon Ismenis Atalanta Calchas vates prophets Thetis visions Sybil metapoetics maternal epic lament literary tradition...

...’ Thebaid and Achilleid as a would-be, but never-quite-realized, maternal epic, a poetry of supplements, surrogates, and digressions, rather than one that fuses narrative linearity and patrilineage, like the Aeneid. STATIUS Statius APOLLONIUS OF RHODES SERVIUS...