1. Altering Attis: Ethnicity, Gender and Genre in Catullus 63.
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Harrison, Stephen
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ATTIS (Deity) , *ETHNICITY , *GENDER , *LITERARY form , *POETRY (Literary form) - 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 alteration: 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;2) and genre, the literary form of the poem and its alteration and mixture of various types of generic antecedent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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