Corbeill, Anthony, 1960-

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.


Electronic books.

PA6029.E87 / C67 2015

870.9/3538