Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome / Anthony Corbeill.

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2015]

204 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-188) and indexes.

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.