This book traces the image of the pregnant male in Greek literature
as it evolved over the course of the classical period. The image -
as deployed in myth and in metaphor - originated as a
representation of paternity and, by extension, 'authorship' of
ideas, works of art, legislation, and the like. Only later, with
its reception in philosophy in the early fourth century, did it
also become a way to figure and negotiate the boundary between the
sexes. The book considers a number of important moments in the
evolution of the image: the masculinist embryological theory of
Anaxagoras of Clazomenae and other fifth century pre-Socratics;
literary representations of the birth of Dionysus; the origin and
functions of pregnancy as a metaphor in tragedy, comedy and works
of some Sophists; and finally the redeployment of some of these
myths and metaphors in Aristophanes' Assemblywomen and in Plato's
Symposium and Theaetetus.
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