Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome /
Anthony Corbeill.
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
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.
9781400852468
Latin literature--History and criticism. Latin language--Gender. Gender identity in literature.