Journal article
Altering Attis: ethnicity, gender and genre in Catullus 63
- Abstract:
- 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 alteratio: 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; and genre, the literary form of the poem and its alteration and mixture of various types of generic antecedent.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Brill
- Journal:
- Mnemosyne More from this journal
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 520-533
- Publication date:
- 2004-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1568-525X
- ISSN:
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0026-7074
- Language:
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2010-11-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden
- Copyright date:
- 2004
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Harrison, S. (2004). 'Altering Attis: ethnicity, gender and genre in Catullus 63', Mnemosyne 57(5), 520-533. [The definitive version of the article is available at http://www.brill.nl/mnem]. © 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden.
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