The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid (repost)
The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid by P. J. Heslin
English | PDF | 2009 | ISBN 0521117755, 0521851459 | 370 pages | 4 Mb
English | PDF | 2009 | ISBN 0521117755, 0521851459 | 370 pages | 4 Mb
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.