The Transvestite Achilles: Gender And Genre In Statius' Achilleid

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.

• | By (Author): P. J. (University Of Durham) Heslin
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 30, 2009
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 372 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521117755
• | ISBN-13: 9780521117753