Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome

by Anthony Corbeill

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691202311
• ISBN13: 9780691202310
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"