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The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature
Dr David D. Leitao
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| #4958395 in Books | Cambridge University Press | 2012-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.98 x1.10 x5.98l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 328 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent analysis of this strikingly strange symbol that recurs throughout ...|By Chris|An excellent analysis of this strikingly strange symbol that recurs throughout centuries of Greek literature, but is often only discussed in its Platonian context. Highly recommended for anyone working on either Plato (esp. the Symposium) or issues of gender and sexuality.||"This important and thought-provoking book provides a meticulously documented history of the metaphor of male pregnancy in Athens during the classical period ... Leitao successfully demonstrates that the conception of intellectual production as a male reproduc
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 ...
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