Nature Is a Transsexual Woman: Lucretian Metaphysics Reconsidered.
Recent work shows that gender diversity is not a modern phenomenon. In this essay, I make a stronger claim: transsexuality is and always has been center stage, if only in an omitted form. More particularly, I argue that transsexuality lives at the heart of Lucretius' De rerum natura (DRN). Nature, t...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 119; no. 2; pp. 203 - 234 |
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