The Transvestite Achilles
P. J. (University of Durham) Heslin
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521117753
- ISBN-10
- 0521117755
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Publication date
- 2009-07-30
- Pages
- 372
- Dimensions
- 229x152x23
- Weight
- 582