The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid

ISBN-13: 9780521117753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 372 str.

P. J. Heslin

Opis

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.