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035 _a(DE-B1597)459874
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082 0 4 _a870.93538
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCorbeill, Anthony
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSexing the World :
_bGrammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome /
_cAnthony Corbeill.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource :
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Latin Grammatical Gender Is Not Arbitrary --
_tChapter 1. Roman Scholars on Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex --
_tChapter 2. Roman Poets on Grammatical Gender --
_tChapter 3. Poetic Play with Sex and Gender --
_tChapter 4. Androgynous Gods in Archaic Rome --
_tChapter 5. The Prodigious Hermaphrodite --
_tAbbreviations --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex Locorum --
_tGeneral Index
520 _aFrom 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 signified, regardless of whether that object was animate or inanimate. This informed the Roman poets who, for a time, changed at whim the grammatical gender for words as seemingly lifeless as "dust" (pulvis) or "tree bark" (cortex). Corbeill then applies the idea of fluid grammatical gender to the basic tenets of Roman religion and state politics. He looks at how the ancients tended to construct Rome's earliest divinities as related male and female pairs, a tendency that waned in later periods. An analogous change characterized the dual-sexed hermaphrodite, whose sacred and political significance declined as the republican government became an autocracy. Throughout, Corbeill shows that the fluid boundaries of sex and gender became increasingly fixed into opposing and exclusive categories.Sexing the World contributes to our understanding of the power of language to shape human perception.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
650 0 _aGender identity in literature.
650 0 _aLatin language
_xGender.
650 0 _aLatin literature
_xHistory and criticism.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
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