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Author Campanile, Domitilla

Title TransAntiquity : Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages)
Series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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
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
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
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author CarlĂ -Uhink, Filippo
Facella, Margherita
ISBN 9781317377375
1317377370