The Transvestite Achilles Gender and Genre in Statius Achilleid 1st Edition by P J Heslin ISBN 0521851459 9780521851459

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ISBN 10: 0521851459

ISBN 13: 9780521851459 

Author: P. J. Heslin

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.

Table of contents:

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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