The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid

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Cambridge University Press, 11 aug 2005
Statius' Achilleid is a playful, witty, and open-ended epic in the manner of Ovid. As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, the poet brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behaviour: 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 been adduced to explain Achilles' transvestism. The study's expansive approach, which includes Ovid and Ovidian reception, psychoanalytic perspectives and theorizations of gender in antiquity, makes it essential reading not only for students of Statius, but for students of Latin literature, and of gender in antiquity.
 

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Acknowledgments
4
Introduction
6
1 Opening Nights at the Opera 16411744
16
2 The Design of the Achilleid
157
3 Womanhood Rhetoric and Performance
113
4 Semivir Semifer Semideus
103
5 Transve ism in Myth and Ritual
75
6 Rape Repetition and Romance
50
7 Conclusion
17
Works Cited
Index Locorum
General Index
Copyright

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Over de auteur (2005)

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

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