{"product_id":"making-men-sophists-and-selfpresentation-in-ancient-rome-9780691137346","title":"Making Men  Sophists and SelfPresentation in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrefaceIntroductionList 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403761295703,"sku":"9780691137346","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691137346.jpg?v=1730484463","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-men-sophists-and-selfpresentation-in-ancient-rome-9780691137346","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}