The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature by David D.

The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature by David D. Leitao

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Description This book traces the image of the pregnant male as it evolved in classical Greek literature. Originating as a representation of paternity and, by extension, 'authorship' of creative works, the image later became a way to explore the boundary between the sexes.

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This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature as it evolved over the course of the classical period. The image - as deployed in myth and in metaphor - originated 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, did 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.

Author Biography

David D. Leitao is Professor of Classics at San Francisco State University and Chair of the Departments of Classics and Comparative and World Literature. He has published articles in Classical Antiquity, Mnemosyne and Materiali e Discussioni, as well as in numerous edited volumes.

Details ISBN 1107017289 ISBN-13 9781107017283 Title The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature Author David D. Leitao Format Hardcover Year 2012 Pages 328 Publisher Cambridge University Press GE_Item_ID:44331288; About Us

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