Statius himself appears as a character in:

Prompted by the Theban prophet Tiresias, the son of Creon:

Just as Achilles does in Homer’s Iliad, this character in the Thebaid fights a river.

Creon is Polynices and Eteocles’:

This colossal member of the Seven Against Thebes is struck down by Jupiter’s lightning.

The son of the huntress Atalanta, this member of the Seven Against Thebes perishes in battle after making a deadly assault against Theban forces with his bow.

In the closing lines of the Thebaid, Statius depicts himself as humble and modest alongside:

The ancient Greek word for “best” or “best scene,” in epic convention most often describing glory in battle, is:

Toward the epic’s end, two tongues of flame licking upward, as though competing with one another, symbolize the unending rivalry between:

The first of the Seven Against Thebes to die, this character is swallowed up by a giant hole in the earth.

This deity remonstrates with Jupiter and asks Jupiter to go easy on Thebes.

Says, “Now a pair / of criminals begins a duel that Earth / in all her miseries has never known. / Let it be distant from divinities.”

This character, never a very peaceable fellow, eats an enemy’s head in the last moments of his life.

This Athenian king intervenes at the war’s end when he hears that the Thebans are disallowing the burial of the Argive dead.

The son of Creon, this character survives the war of Thebes and its aftermath in Statius’ epic, after which we presume he’ll marry Antigone.