Statius, Achilleid: An Intermediate Latin Reader Suzanne Noffke No dice or boards

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Statius, Achilleid: An Intermediate Latin Reader Suzanne Noffke No dice or boardsThis book provides vocabulary and commentary to Statius' unfinished epic poem Achilleid ("[The book or story] of Achilles"), which was intended to tell the life of the hero Achilles from his youth to his death at Troy. The one book and part of a second that survive (a total of 1,128 lines) recount Achilles' life from his time with the centaur Chiron to an episode in which his mother, the sea goddess Thetis, disguises him as a girl on the island of