Statius' Ovidian Achilles

Chinn, Christopher

doi:10.7834/phoenix.67.3-4.0320

Phoenix

2013

DOI: 10.7834/phoenix.67.3-4.0320

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Statius' Ovidian Achilles

Christopher Chinn¹

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Achilles and the Poetics of Manhood: Re(de)fining Europe and Asia in Statius’ Achilleid

Augoustakis¹

2016

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This article examines the binarism Europe/Asia in Statius’ Achilleid as a means to understand the polarities of male/female, West/East, Greek/barbarian, and ultimately Roman/non-Roman. I demonstrate that Helen’s abduction by Paris and the discourse on the succession of empires in Statius’ poem reflect Thetis’ own transformation of Achilles into a woman. Through his cross-dressing and the impregnation of Deidamia, marked in the text as a violent attack, Achilles comes of age on the liminally other island of Scyros by replicating Paris’ rapina . The “European” Achilles incorporates both the effeminate traits of the East and the warlike manliness of the West; he also ultimately embodies the “Asian” other , which he is destined to conquer.

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Achilles and the Poetics of Manhood: Re(de)fining Europe and Asia in Statius’ Achilleid

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