Table of contents for The transvestite Achilles : gender and genre in Statius' Achilleid / P.J. Heslin.
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Introduction; 1. Opening nights at the opera 1641-1741; 2. The design of the Achilleid; 3. Womanhood, rhetoric, and performance; 4. Semivir, Semifer, Semideus; 5. Transvestism in myth and ritual; 6. Rape, repetition, and romance; 7. Conclusion.
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Statius, P. Papinius -- (Publius Papinius) -- Achilleis.
Ovid, -- 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. -- Influence.
Achilles (Greek mythology) in literature.
Transvestites in literature.