Making Men : : Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Gleason, Maud W.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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