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The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid Heslin, P. J. (University of Durham)
The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid
Heslin, P. J. (University of Durham)
Statius' unfinished epic, the Achilleid, explores Achilles' mother's attempt to save her son from the Trojan War by dressing him as a girl. This first book-length study of the poem offers a detailed interpretation and explores questions of the poem's reception and of gender in antiquity.
370 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 11, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521851459 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 370 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 237 × 25 mm · 648 g |
| Language | English |
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