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The Transvestite Achilles

by P. J. Heslin
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780521851459
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 370
  • Original Price: USD 89.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 649 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient & Classical

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.

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

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