Performing the "kinaidos" : unmanly men in ancient mediterranean cultures / Tom Sapsford.

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This volume is a 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sapsford, Tom (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Effeminacy > Mediterranean Region > History.
Men > Sexual behavior > Mediterranean Region > History.
Mediterranean Region > Antiquities.
Mediterranean Region > Civilization.
Méditerranée, Région de la > Civilisation.
Antiquities.
Civilization.
Effeminacy.
Men > Sexual behavior.
Mediterranean Region.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:vi, 231 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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