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

1. Verfasser: Corbeill, Anthony, 1960-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Umfang/Format: 204 pages.
ISBN: 9780691163222
9781400852468
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 4 Datensätze
Online-Zugang: Online available
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.