Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (372 p.))
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511482236
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521851459
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521117753
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-052-185-145-9
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521851459
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511482236
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