Book contents
- Explorations in Latin Literature
- Explorations in Latin Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Acknowledgements and Original Places of Publication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Taciturnity of Aeneas
- Chapter 2 The Reconciliations of Juno
- Chapter 3 Epic Hero and Epic Fable
- Chapter 4 Stat magni nominis umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus
- Chapter 5 History and Revelation in Virgil’s Underworld
- Chapter 6 Following after Hercules, in Virgil and Apollonius
- Chapter 7 Beginning Sallust’s Catiline
- Chapter 8 Leaving Dido: The Appearance(s) of Mercury and the Motivations of Aeneas
- Chapter 9 Epic Violence, Epic Order: Killings, Catalogues, and the Role of the Reader in Aeneid 10
- Chapter 10 Mea tempora: Patterning of Time in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
- Chapter 11 Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models
- Chapter 12 Tenui … latens discrimine: Spotting the Differences in Statius’ Achilleid
- Chapter 13 On Not Forgetting the ‘Literatur’ in ‘Literatur und Religion’: Representing the Mythic and the Divine in Roman Historiography
- Chapter 14 Virgil’s Tale of Four Cities: Troy, Carthage, Alexandria and Rome
- Chapter 15 First Similes in Epic
- Chapter 16 Fictions of Citizenship in Livy’s History
- Published Works of Denis Feeney
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- General Index
Chapter 12 - Tenui … latens discrimine: Spotting the Differences in Statius’ Achilleid
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2021
- Explorations in Latin Literature
- Explorations in Latin Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- List of Acknowledgements and Original Places of Publication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Taciturnity of Aeneas
- Chapter 2 The Reconciliations of Juno
- Chapter 3 Epic Hero and Epic Fable
- Chapter 4 Stat magni nominis umbra: Lucan on the Greatness of Pompeius Magnus
- Chapter 5 History and Revelation in Virgil’s Underworld
- Chapter 6 Following after Hercules, in Virgil and Apollonius
- Chapter 7 Beginning Sallust’s Catiline
- Chapter 8 Leaving Dido: The Appearance(s) of Mercury and the Motivations of Aeneas
- Chapter 9 Epic Violence, Epic Order: Killings, Catalogues, and the Role of the Reader in Aeneid 10
- Chapter 10 Mea tempora: Patterning of Time in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
- Chapter 11 Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models
- Chapter 12 Tenui … latens discrimine: Spotting the Differences in Statius’ Achilleid
- Chapter 13 On Not Forgetting the ‘Literatur’ in ‘Literatur und Religion’: Representing the Mythic and the Divine in Roman Historiography
- Chapter 14 Virgil’s Tale of Four Cities: Troy, Carthage, Alexandria and Rome
- Chapter 15 First Similes in Epic
- Chapter 16 Fictions of Citizenship in Livy’s History
- Published Works of Denis Feeney
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- General Index
Summary
Statius’ unfinished epic, the Achilleid, describes in its surviving opening portion the attempt of Achilles’ mother, Thetis, to stop him joining the expedition against Troy by disguising him as a girl on the island of Scyros. The chapter analyses Roman conceptions of gender and sexuality, as Achilles’ disguise does not prevent him from having sex with Deidamia. His underlying violent masculinity is revealed by the trickery of Ulysses.
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- Explorations in Latin Literature , pp. 228 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021