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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400852468 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome.DDC classification:
  • 870.9/3538 23
LOC classification:
  • PA6029.E87 C67 2015eb
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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