Sexing the World : Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Corbeill, Anthony, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Latin literature.
Latin language > Gender.
Gender identity in literature.
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Identite sexuelle dans la litterature.
Latin (Langue) > Genre.
Litterature latine > Histoire et critique.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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