Transvestite Achilles Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid

Name: Transvestite Achilles Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid
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ISBN: 9780521851459

ISBN-10: 0521851459

ISBN-13: 9780521851459

Edition: 2005

Authors: P. J. Heslin

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As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, Statius brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behavior: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth of Achilles on Scyros within a broad interpretive framework. The exploration ranges from the reception of the Achilleid in Baroque opera to the anthropological parallels that have emerged to explain Achilles' transvestism.

Book details

List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/11/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 370
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

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



Introduction



Opening nights at the opera 1641ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1741



The design of the Achilleid



Womanhood, rhetoric, and performance



Semivir, Semifer, Semideus



Transvestism in myth and ritual



Rape, repetition, and romance



Conclusion