Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome

Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome / Anthony Corbeill.

From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender-masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin...

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Main Author: Corbeill, Anthony, 1960- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Latin language > Gender.
Gender identity in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Gender identity in literature
Latin language > Gender
Latin literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Latin grammatical gender is not arbitrary
  • Roman scholars on grammatical gender and biological sex
  • Roman poets on grammatical gender
  • Poetic play with sex and gender
  • Androgynous gods in archaic Rome
  • Appendix to chapter 4: male/female pairs of deities
  • The prodigious hermaphrodite.

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