The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' AchilleidAs 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. |
Contents
Opening Sights at the Opera 16411744 | 1 |
The Design of the Achilleid | 57 |
Womanhood Rhetoric and Performance | 105 |
Semivir Semifer Semideus | 157 |
Transvestism in Myth and Ritual | 193 |
Rape Repetition and Romance | 237 |
Conclusion | 277 |
Works Cited | 301 |
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The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid P. J. Heslin No preview available - 2009 |
Common terms and phrases
Achille in Sciro Achilleid Achilles and Deidamia Aeneid ancient Apollo Apollonius Bacchic mysteries Bacchus Barchiesi boys Callimachus Catullus Chiron Chiron's cave Cited claims classical context cross-dressing cult Cypria dance daughter Deidamia described Dilke Dionysus disguise drama dress epic episode Euripides evidence example fact father female feminine finta pazza Gay's gender girls goddess Greek Hercules hero Homer Iliad initiation initiatory Jupiter Lacan Latin libretto LIMC S.V. lines literary Lycomedes maenads male masculinity Metastasio mother myth mythical narrative Neoptolemus Neptune opera Ovid Ovid's Ovidian Paris passage Peleus Pentheus phallus play plot poem poet Pyrrha rape reference rhetorical rites ritual role Rolli Roman says scene Scyros seems sexual Silvae simile spear Statius story of Achilles Strozzi symbol Thebaid Theseus Thetis thyrsus tion tradition transvestism transvestite Trojan Troy Ulysses and Diomedes unveiling Virgil Virgilian wedding woman women word Zeus καὶ
References to this book
In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic Neil W. Bernstein Limited preview - 2008 |