The ends of epic poems are always particularly contested sites, and Statius'Thebaidis no exception. In this article, I hope to present a new angle on the debate by taking comparison with Lucan'sBellum Ciuileas my starting point. Reading Statius through Lucan suggests to me that there must be dissent in the ending of theThebaidabout the degree of closure that the poem should and does achieve. This dissent in Lucan characterises both the ending ofBellum Ciuileand the unofficial and tentative problematisation of closure in the burial of Pompey.

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