Status prawny hermafrodytów w Rzymie
The article focuses on the legal status of hermaphrodites in Rome. During the regal period as well as throughout the Republic, intersex persons were not only shunned by most of society, but also feared, as hermaphrodites were perceived as prodigia. Romans applied this term to describe peculiar pheno...
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
2025-02-01
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| Series: | Prawo |
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| Online Access: | https://wuwr.pl/prawo/article/view/17824 |
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| Summary: | The article focuses on the legal status of hermaphrodites in Rome. During the regal period as well as throughout the Republic, intersex persons were not only shunned by most of society, but also feared, as hermaphrodites were perceived as prodigia. Romans applied this term to describe peculiar phenomena caused—as they believed—by divine activity, which were aimed at indicating the imminent rupture of pax deorum, i.e. an accord between humans and the gods. The social norms established within ancient states were based on strict division of roles and functions, resulting from gender diff erentiation. Hermaphrodites blurred the lines of this division and as such were treated as a threat to the proper functioning of the state. The author presents the most important sources regarding the status of hermaphrodites in the republican period, their elimination from the society on the basis of the procuratio prodigorum procedure, as well as reasons for the gradual change of attitudes towards androgynes in the last century of the republic, and evidence of them acquiring legal capacity during the Principate. |
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| ISSN: | 0524-4544 2957-2355 |