Род и пол в старогръцкия: къде е разликата?
Gender and Sex in Ancient Greek: is there any difference?

Summary/Abstract: The article examines onomasiologically the underlying relationship between basic lexemes (génos, and phýlon) denoting varyingly ‘sex’, ‘gender’, ‘clan’ and ‘tribe’ in Ancient Greek. Their contextual analysis showed up that sex as a term was coined upon metonymic transfers of collective meanings for ‘groups’. Both lexemes used to stand for a variation of one and the same concept, which only in the modern age underwent semantic divergence. No evidence has been found for a modern-day English-style dichotomy sex vs. gender.

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