The rhetoric of gender terms : 'man', 'woman', and the portrayal of character in Latin prose /

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...

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Main Author: Santoro L'Hoir, Francesca.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1992.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 120.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.

Subjects:

Latin prose literature > History and criticism.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Sex > Terminology.

Characters and characteristics in literature.