The Rhetoric of Gender Terms: 'Man', 'Woman', and the Portrayal of Character in Latin Prose - Rilegato

Santoro L'hoir, Francesca

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ISBN 10: 9004095128 ISBN 13: 9789004095120

Casa editrice: Brill Academic Pub, 1997

Riassunto

The aim of this work is to recover classical Roman assumptions about women on the basis of the surviving linguistic data. The author provides a control to her study of the connotations of the major Latin words for women in the form of a corresponding examination of how Roman authors use the various words for men. The resulting analysis throws light not only on Roman gender vocabulary but also on Roman cultural perceptions of class, moral worth and nationality. Furthermore, the author's detailed discussions of strictly linguistic evidence enable her to offer several original and persuasive insights about the traditional Latin literary representation of women.
Understanding the connotative range of gender terms such as homo, vir, femina, mulier also reveals the value judgments made by ancient authors on male and female behavior and can even be applied as a tool of historical analysis.
The topic will be of interest to students of Latin philology, rhetoric, literature and Roman history.

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L'autore:

Francesca Santoro L'Hoir is Assistant Professor in the Classics Department of Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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• Editore: Brill Academic Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 9004095128
• ISBN 13: 9789004095120
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 216