Performing the "kinaidos" unmanly men in ancient mediterranean cultures / Tom Sapsford.
| Author/creator | Sapsford, Tom |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022. |
| Description | vi, 231 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| 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 |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021944569 |
| ISBN | 0198854323 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780198854326 hardcover |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |