{"product_id":"gender-and-languages-in-antiquity-9783111628332","title":"Gender and Language(s) in Antiquity","description":"\u003cp\u003eGender is a linguistic as well as a cultural construct. This volume, born from a EuGeStA conference, addresses the relationship between language ​​and gender in Greek and Roman culture interrogating texts from archaic epic to late antiquity. How do literary codifications reflect, recreate, or question the idea of​​ gender? How is this idea configured in the system of literary genres, in its evolution, and in the development of traditional languages?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe eighteen papers deal with women writers (Sapphus, Sulpicia) and books ‘for women’ (\u003cem\u003eArs amatoria\u003c\/em\u003e 3), male philosophers’ discourse on women’s role, the terminology of the arts and crafts, female speech in Attic tragedy, the language of iambus and forensic oratory; they analyse female voices in Catullus and Seneca, gendered imagery in Ovid’s \u003cem\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/em\u003e, medical language in Petronius, absent presences in bucolic discourse, male and female lament in the \u003cem\u003eEpicedion Drusi\u003c\/em\u003e, code-switching and gender in Martial, the role of the feminised \u003cem\u003evates\u003c\/em\u003e in the \u003cem\u003eAchilleid\u003c\/em\u003e and of the eunuch in Claudian.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudying the relation between gender and languages in the ancient world, this book takes part in a contemporary debate, and is of interest to scholars and students of Classics, Gender Studies, and History.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Federica Bessone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49113109168379,"sku":"9783111628332","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_d2d60844-4ab1-4165-9dd0-74041a816d78.jpg?v=1785266778","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/gender-and-languages-in-antiquity-9783111628332","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}