The student will acquire advanced knowledge through: 1) the philological commentary of selected passages; 2) the analysis of the same steps following different paths - linguistic, historical-literary, anthropological -from time to time on the 'permanence' of gender in specific areas of our culture (students will be active in this part of the course, which is configured as a research laboratory); 3) the commentary on passages by great authors of Latin literature in the light of the critical-exegetical writings of eminent contemporary philologists.