The transvestite Achilles : gender and genre in Statius' Achilleid

P.J. Heslin

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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[目次]

  • 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.

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書名 The transvestite Achilles : gender and genre in Statius' Achilleid
著作者等 Heslin, P.J.
Heslin Peter
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 2005
ページ数 xx, 349 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521851459
NCID BA7470067X
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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