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1 online resource (277 pages) |
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Part I Transgender dynamics in the ancient social and political space; 1 "Between the human and the divine": Cross-dressing and transgender dynamics in the Graeco-Roman world; 2 Cross-dressing in Rome between norm and practice; 3 The patrician, the general and the emperor in women's clothes: Examples of cross-dressing in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome; 4 Cross-dressers in control: Transvestism, power and the balance between the sexes in the literary discourse of the Roman Empire |
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Part II Ancient transgender dynamics and the sacred sphere5 Cross-dressing and the sexual symbolism of the divine sphere in pharaonic Egypt; 6 Aspects of transvestism in Greek myths and rituals; 7 Beyond ritual: Cross-dressing between Greece and the Orient; 8 Cross-dressing as discourse and symbol in late antique religion and literature; Part III Transgender as subversive literary discourse; 9 "O saffron robe, to what pass have you brought me!": Cross-dressing and theatrical illusion in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae |
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10 Declaiming and (cross- )dressing: Remixing Roman declamation and its metaphorology11 Imperatrix and bellatrix: Cicero's Clodia and Vergil's Camilla; Part IV Transgender myth; 12 The hero's white hands: The early history of the myth of Achilles on Scyros; 13 Hercules cinaedus?: The effeminate hero in Christian polemic; Bibliography; Index; Index of sources |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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Author |
CarlĂ -Uhink, Filippo
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Facella, Margherita
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ISBN |
9781317377375 |
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1317377370 |
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