TransAntiquity : cross-dressing and transgender dynamics in the ancient world /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Campanile, Domitilla (Editor), CarlĂ -Uhink, Filippo (Editor), Facella, Margherita (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Series:Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient Social and Political Space. {u2018}Between the Human and the Divine{u2019}: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Graeco-Roman World
  • Cross-Dressing in Rome between Norm and Practice
  • The Patrician, the General and the Emperor in Women{u2019}s Clothes. Examples of Cross-Dressing in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome
  • Cross-Dressers in Control. Transvestism, Power and the Balance between the Sexes in the Literary Discourse of the Roman Empire
  • Part 2. Ancient Transgender Dynamics and the Sacred Sphere. Cross-Dressing and the Sexual Symbolism of the Divine Sphere in Pharaonic Egypt
  • Aspects of Transvestism in Greek Myths and Rituals
  • Beyond Ritual: Cross-Dressing between Greece and the Orient
  • Cross-Dressing as Discourse and Symbol in Late Antique Religion and Literature
  • Part 3. Transgender as Subversive Literary Discourse. "O Saffron Robe, to what Pass have you brought me!" Cross-Dressing and Theatrical Illusion in Aristophanes{u2019} Thesmophoriazusae
  • Declaiming and (Cross-)Dressing: Remixing Roman Declamation and its Metaphorology
  • Imperatrix and bellatrix: Cicero{u2019}s Clodia and Vergil{u2019}s Camilla
  • Part 4. Transgender Myth. The Hero{u2019}s White Hands. The Early History of the Myth of Achilles on Scyros
  • Hercules cinaedus? The Effeminate Hero in Christian Polemic.