This is a reprint of a 1983 edition of Statius' "Thebaid," It includes a list of corrections which have come to light since then. The edition establishes a text based on a full account of all important suggestions published before 1980.

D.E. Hill, M.A. (1963), Cambridge, is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Classics at Newcastle University. He has also published an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses 1-4 (1985) and 5-8 (1992).