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
Summary
This volume is the first 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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed December 28, 2022)
