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

  • Corbeill, Anthony, 1960-
Date:
[2015]
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Publication/Creation

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Physical description

204 pages ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and indexes.

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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    History of Medicine
    TW.341.AA1
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ISBN

  • 9780691163222
  • 0691163227