Epic theologies and theodicies. Statius and the Ovidian perspective
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2011.11.1021Keywords:
fatum, Providence, epic theology, Jupiter, Statius, Ovid, Lucan, SenecaAbstract
Statius is receiving a much more positive approaches nowadays than years ago. They are really contributing to his recent rehabilitation. However, this new situation has not meant in practice a better understanding of the Thebaid’s divine machine. More concretely, Jupiter’s hesitations about his relationship with fatum are still considered narrative incoherences. Obviously enough, the ontological and theological status of Zeus-Jupiter was profoundly unstable throughout the whole of Greek and Roman literary tradition. Even so, classical scholarship still try to explain the Statian Jupiter in the light of the Stoic Providence that, almost aporeticly, semper paret, semel iussit (Sen., Dial. I 5.8.9). In this paper I shall bring up some Ovidian and Senecan passages, but I shall not appeal to the theologian Seneca, but to the political thinker. I hope to show that Thebaid’ Jupiter bears strong resemblances to Ovidian rector Olympi and to Senecan ciuitatis rector.
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