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

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 Favor...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gleason, Maud W., 1954- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1995]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Ch. 1. Favorinus and His Statue
  • Ch. 2. Portrait of Polemo: The Deportment of the Public Self
  • Ch. 3. Deportment as Language Physiognomy and the Semiotics of Gender
  • Ch. 4. Aerating the Flesh: Voice Training and the Calisthenics of Gender
  • Ch. 5. Voice and Virility in Rhetorical Writers
  • Ch. 6. Manhood Achieved through Speech: A Eunuch-Philosopher's Self-Fashioning.