The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature

ISBN: 9781107423497 出版年：2012 页码：322 David D Leitao Cambridge University Press

1. Introduction 2. The new father of Anaxagoras: the one-seed theory of reproduction and its reception in Athenian tragedy 3. The thigh birth of Dionysus: exploring legitimacy in the classical city-state 4. From myth to metaphor: intellectual and poetic generation in the age of the Sophists 5. Blepyrus' turd-child and the birth of Athena 6. The pregnant philosopher: masculine and feminine procreative styles in Plato's Symposium 7. Reading Plato's midwife: Socrates and intellectual paternity in the Theaetetus Appendix 1. Did any thinker before Democritus argue for the existence of female 'seed'? Appendix 2. Women and men as grammatical subjects of tau kappatauomega.