Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid
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Offers the first book-length examination of Statius' unfinished epic, the Achilleid.
Introduction;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.
