By David D. Leitao

ISBN-10: 1107017289

ISBN-13: 9781107017283

ISBN-10: 110742349X

ISBN-13: 9781107423497

This e-book strains identical to the pregnant male in Greek literature because it developed over the process the classical interval. the picture - as deployed in fantasy and in metaphor - originated as a illustration of paternity and, by way of extension, 'authorship' of principles, artworks, laws, and so on. simply later, with its reception in philosophy within the early fourth century, did it additionally develop into the way to determine and negotiate the boundary among the sexes. The publication considers a few very important moments within the evolution of the picture: the masculinist embryological concept of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and different 5th century pre-Socratics; literary representations of the beginning of Dionysus; the foundation and capabilities of being pregnant as a metaphor in tragedy, comedy and works of a few Sophists; and eventually the redeployment of a few of those myths and metaphors in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen and in Plato's Symposium and Theaetetus.

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