Sexing the World : : Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome / / Anthony Corbeill.
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...
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Corbeill, Anthony, author. Sexing the World : Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome / Anthony Corbeill. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource : 1 table. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Latin Grammatical Gender Is Not Arbitrary -- Chapter 1. Roman Scholars on Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex -- Chapter 2. Roman Poets on Grammatical Gender -- Chapter 3. Poetic Play with Sex and Gender -- Chapter 4. Androgynous Gods in Archaic Rome -- Chapter 5. The Prodigious Hermaphrodite -- Abbreviations -- Works Cited -- Index Locorum -- General Index 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 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) Gender identity in literature. Latin language Gender. Latin literature History and criticism. HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015 9783110444186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2014-2015 9783110665925 print 9780691163222 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852468?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400852468.jpg |
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