- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 231 pages)
- Summary
- This volume is a book-length study of the kinaidos, a type of person noted in ancient literature for his effeminacy and untoward sexual behaviour. Sapsford analyses the multiple ways the figure was identified in antiquity, with a focus on its expression in social performance.
- Uniform Title
- Performing the "kinaidos" (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Performing the "kinaidos" (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Ancient effeminates -- Demosthenes the kinaidos and Aeschines the fox -- "I'm a kinaidos and don't deny it" : the materiality of the kinados in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt -- Desert fragments : kinaidic verse in Egypt and beyond -- The drumming of a deviant beat -- Juvenal's second satire : a case of double contagion -- To dream of clay -- The Sotadean meter
- LCCN
- 2021944569
- OCLC
- ssj0002712296
- Author
Sapsford, Tom.
- Title
Performing the "kinaidos" [electronic resource] : unmanly men in ancient mediterranean cultures / Tom Sapsford.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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