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A Perfect Murder: The Hypsipyle Epyllion (2016)
Book Chapter
Heslin, P. (2016). A Perfect Murder: The Hypsipyle Epyllion. In N. Manioti (Ed.), Family in Flavian epic (89-121). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004324664_006

This piece builds upon two well-established approaches to Book 5 of Statius’ Thebaid: Hypsipyle as a sophisticated and potentially unreliable narrator of her own experiences and Nemea as a place of particularly Callimachean resonance. I argue that St... Read More about A Perfect Murder: The Hypsipyle Epyllion.

Ovid’s Cycnus and Homer’s Achilles’ Heel (2016)
Book Chapter
Heslin, P. (2016). Ovid’s Cycnus and Homer’s Achilles’ Heel. In L. Fulkerson, & T. Stover (Eds.), Repeat Performances: Ovidian Repetition and the Metamorphoses. University of Wisconsin Press