Gaius and Achilles — Scriptorium Liberum

The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Ge

📁 The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid

✍ P. J. Heslin 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, Statius brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behavior: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth o

The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Ge

📁 The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid

✍ P. J. Heslin 📂 Library 📅 2009 🌐 English

As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, Statius brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behavior: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth o

The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Ge

📁 The Transvestite Achilles: Gender and Genre in Statius' Achilleid

✍ P. J. Heslin 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

As we follow Achilles' metamorphosis from wild boy to demure girl to lover to hero, Statius brilliantly illustrates a series of contrasting codes of behavior: male and female, epic and elegiac. This first full-length study of the poem addresses not only the narrative itself, but also sets the myth o

Gaius

📁 Gaius

✍ Tony Honoré 📂 Library 📅 1962 🏛 Clarendon Press 🌐 English

Biographical study of the Roman law teacher, Gaius, who lived in the second century A.D.

Achilles and the Houseboy

📁 Achilles and the Houseboy

✍ Gillibran Brown 📂 Fiction 📅 2021 🌐 English

If Achilles, ancient hero of the Trojan War, had worn proper footwear then Gillibran Brown, modern hero of the Domestic Empire, would get into a lot less trouble, or so he believes. A kiss heralds the arrival of a most unwelcome and troublesome visitor who throws the eponymous houseboy out of kilter

Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon

📁 Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon

✍ S. Gaselee 📂 Library 📅 1910 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

Achilles Tatius was a Greek from Alexandria in Egypt; he is now believed to have flourished in the second century CE. Of his life nothing is known, though the Suidas says he became a Christian and a bishop and wrote a work on etymology, one on the sphere, and an account of great men. He is famous ho