P. J. Heslin (University of Durham)

The Transvestite Achilles

Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Statius' unfinished epic, the Achilleid, explores Achilles' mother's attempt to save her son from the Trojan War by dressing him as a girl. This first book-length study of the poem offers a detailed interpretation and explores questions of the poem's reception and of gender in antiquity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9780521117753
• ISBN-10: 0521117755
• Artikelnr.: 26204850

Autorenporträt

P. J. Heslin is a lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Opening nights at the opera 1641-1741
2. The design of the Achilleid
3. Womanhood, rhetoric, and performance
4. Semivir, Semifer, Semideus
5. Transvestism in myth and ritual
6. Rape, repetition, and romance
7. Conclusion.