Altering Attis
Ethnicity, Gender and Genre in Catullus 63
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20072400 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Hanison (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 11-24 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Catullus' Poem on Attis (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789047414469_004 |
| OpenAlex | W4250485303 |
| ISBN | 9789047414469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Catullus 63 is one of the most unusual of Latin poems, and also one of the most difficult for literary interpreters. In this paper I would like to discuss it from three angles, connected by the common factor of change or alteration: ethnicity, the poem’s alteration of Attis’ previous ethnic identity to make him Greek and to stress the contrast with the poem’s Asiatic setting; gender, its transsexual use of previous female literary characters as models for Attis’ two speeches;2) and genre, the literary form of the poem and its alteration and mixture of various types of generic antecedent
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnic group · Interpreter · Literature · Poetry · Sociology · Transgender · Transsexual · Anthropology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |