Description
Book SynopsisOffers insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly deportment. This book 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.
Trade Review"There has been a good deal of recent work on gender-construction in the ancient world, and this book is the fresher for not being another contribution by a woman to women's studies, nor even by a man to the fashionable question of masculinity... Making Men is a delightful and illuminating book, and full of surprises for anyone who imagined that the Romans were ... men who knew exactly what manhood was all about."--Times Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionList of AbbreviationsCh. 1Favorinus and His Statue3Ch. 2Portrait of Polemo: The Deportment of the Public Self21Ch. 3Deportment as Language Physiognomy and the Semiotics of Gender55Ch. 4Aerating the Flesh: Voice Training and the Calisthenics of Gender82Ch. 5Voice and Virility in Rhetorical Writers103Ch. 6Manhood Achieved through Speech: A Eunuch-Philosopher's Self-Fashioning131Conclusion159A Note on Finding Sources in Translation169Select Bibliography171Index Locorum175General Index187
