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Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
Anthony Corbeill
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Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; CFF; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender--masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society into sexual categories, and how this identification of grammatical gender with biological sex affected Roman perceptions of Latin poetry, divine power, and the human hermaphrodite. Beginning with the ancient grammarians, Anthony Corbeill examines how these scholars used the gender of nouns to identify the sex of the object being ... Read more
From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender--masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society into sexual categories, and how this identification of grammatical gender with biological sex affected Roman perceptions of Latin poetry, divine power, and the human hermaphrodite. Beginning with the ancient grammarians, Anthony Corbeill examines how these scholars used the gender of nouns to identify the sex of the object being ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691163222
SKU
V9780691163222
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About Anthony Corbeill
Anthony Corbeill is professor of classics at the University of Kansas and the author of Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic and Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome (both Princeton).
Reviews for Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
Winner of a 2016 Charles Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies "This book is both enjoyable and thought-provoking."
Teresa Morgan, Times Literary Supplement "There is no denying ... that Corbeill has given us much to ponder about Roman linguistic, literary, and religious culture in these packed pages."
Alison Keith, American Historical Review
Teresa Morgan, Times Literary Supplement "There is no denying ... that Corbeill has given us much to ponder about Roman linguistic, literary, and religious culture in these packed pages."
Alison Keith, American Historical Review