Making Men : : Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome / / Maud W. Gleason.
The careers of two popular second-century rhetorical virtuosos offer Maud Gleason fascinating insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly deportment. Declamation was an exhilarating art form for the Greeks and bilingual Romans of the Secon...
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Gleason, Maud W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Making Men : Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome / Maud W. Gleason. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©1994 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. Favorinus and His Statue -- CHAPTER TWO. Portrait of Polemo: The Deportment of the Public Self -- CHAPTER THREE. Deportment as Language: Physiognomy and the Semiotics of Gender -- CHAPTER FOUR. Aerating the Flesh: Voice Training and the Calisthenics of Gender -- CHAPTER FIVE. Voice and Virility in Rhetorical Writers -- CHAPTER SIX. Manhood Achieved through Speech: A Eunuch-Philosopher's Self-Fashioning -- CONCLUSION -- A NOTE ON FINDING SOURCES IN TRANSLATION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The careers of two popular second-century rhetorical virtuosos offer Maud Gleason fascinating insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly deportment. Declamation was an exhilarating art form for the Greeks and bilingual Romans of the Second Sophistic movement, and its best practitioners would travel the empire performing in front of enraptured audiences. The mastery of rhetoric marked the transition to manhood for all aristocratic citizens and remained crucial to a man's social standing. In treating rhetoric as a process of self-presentation in a face-to-face society, Gleason analyzes the deportment and writings of the two Sophists--Favorinus, a eunuch, and Polemo, a man who met conventional gender expectations--to suggest the ways character and gender were perceived. Physiognomical texts of the era show how intently men scrutinized one another for minute signs of gender deviance in such features as gait, gesture, facial expression, and voice. Rhetoricians trained to develop these traits in a "masculine" fashion. Examining the successful career of Favorinus, whose high-pitched voice and florid presentation contrasted sharply with the traditionalist style of Polemo, Gleason shows, however, that ideal masculine behavior was not a monolithic abstraction. In a highly accessible study treating the semiotics of deportment and the medical, cultural, and moral issues surrounding rhetorical activity, she explores the possibilities of self-presentation in the search for recognition as a speaker and a man. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Greek literature Rome History and criticism. Masculinity in literature. Masculinity Rome. Sophists (Greek philosophy). HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187570?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691187570 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691187570.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER ONE. Favorinus and His Statue -- CHAPTER TWO. Portrait of Polemo: The Deportment of the Public Self -- CHAPTER THREE. Deportment as Language: Physiognomy and the Semiotics of Gender -- CHAPTER FOUR. Aerating the Flesh: Voice Training and the Calisthenics of Gender -- CHAPTER FIVE. Voice and Virility in Rhetorical Writers -- CHAPTER SIX. Manhood Achieved through Speech: A Eunuch-Philosopher's Self-Fashioning -- CONCLUSION -- A NOTE ON FINDING SOURCES IN TRANSLATION -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX |
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