The “Effeminate Dancer” in the Greco-Roman World: The Intimate Performance of Ambiguity
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In the cosmopolitan Greco-Roman world of the second and third centuries CE, the terms magodos, malakos, and kinaidos/cinaedus identified a category of performer usually described (inadequately) as the “effeminate dancer.” This paper investigates the nature of the “effeminate dancer’s” performance and his function in the various societies in which such entertainment is attested.
