Performing the "kinaidos" unmanly men in ancient mediterranean cultures / Tom Sapsford.

Author/creator Sapsford, Tom
Other author Oxford University Press.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoOxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Descriptionvi, 231 pages ; 25 cm
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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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and indexes.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021944569
ISBN0198854323 hardcover
ISBN9780198854326 hardcover

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