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The ''Achilleid'' ((ラテン語:Achilleis)) is an unfinished epic poem by Publius Papinius Statius that was intended to present the life of Achilles from his youth through his death at Troy. Only about one and a half books (1,127 dactylic hexameters) were completed before the poet's death. What remains is an account of the hero's early life with Chiron the centaur, and an episode in which his mother Thetis disguised him as a girl on the island of Scyros before he joined the Greek expedition against Troy. ==Composition== Based upon three references to the poem in the ''Silvae'', the ''Achilleid'' seems to have been composed between 94 and 96 CE.〔Shackleton Bailey (2003a) p. 7 believes that the work was begun as early as 94 since, according to Coleman (1988) xix, ''Silvae'' IV was published in 95 and its contents were thus mostly representative of the poet's output from the preceding year. Dilke (1954) 7 argues that the composition of the ''Achilleid'' before 95 could not have amounted to more than "a rough draft of the theme of the proposed epic".〕 At ''Silvae'' 4.7.21–24, Statius complains that he lacks the motivation to make progress upon his "Achilles" without the company of his friend C. Vibius Maximus who was travelling in Dalmatia (and to whom poem is addressed).〔''Silv.'' 4.7.21–24: :torpor est nostris sine te Camenis, :tardius sueto venit ipse Thymbrae :rector et primis meus ecce metis ::haeret Achilles. Translation: "Sluggishness is upon my Muse without you. The commander himself goes rather slowly to his usual Troy and, lo, my Achilles is stuck in the starting gate."〕 Statius apparently overcame this self-described writer's block, for in a poem from the posthumously published fifth book of the ''Silvae'' he refers to an upcoming recitation of a section from the ''Achilleid''.〔''Silv.'' 5.2.161–64; cf. Dilke (1954) 6.〕 This reference is believed to date from the summer of 95, and Statius presumably died later that year or early in the next, leaving the ''Achilleid'' unfinished.〔Dilke (1954) 6 who thinks that Statius' death "occurred about winter 95–6, certainly before Domitian's death in September 96. Vessey (1982) 563 is more circumspect: "Whether the poet survived to witness the extinction of the Flavian house in 96 is unknown.".〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Achilleid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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