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The Pregnant Male As Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date July 10, 2014
Pages 307
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781107423497
ISBN-10 110742349X
Dimensions 1 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight 1 lbs.
Original list price $44.99
Other format details university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolves over the course of the classical period. The image - as deployed in myth and in metaphor - originates as a representation of paternity and, by extension, "authorship" of ideas, works of art, legislation, and the like. Only later, with its reception in philosophy in the early fourth century, does it also become a way to figure and negotiate the boundary between the sexes. The book considers a number of important moments in the evolution of the image: the masculinist embryological theory of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and other fifth century pre-Socratics; literary representations of the birth of Dionysus; the origin and functions of pregnancy as a metaphor in tragedy, comedy, and works of some Sophists; and finally the redeployment of some of these myths and metaphors in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen and in Plato's Symposium and Theaetetus..

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from Cambridge Univ Pr (April 30, 2012)
9781107017283 | details & prices | 307 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.30 lbs | List price $99.99
About: This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolves over the course of the classical period.
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from Cambridge Univ Pr (July 10, 2014)
9781107423497 | details & prices | 307 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $44.99
About: This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolves over the course of the classical period.

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