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Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome by Maud W. Gleason Details

The career of two famous linguists in the second century gave Gileson great insights into the ways in which the ancient Romans built masculinity during a period of anxiety about…

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The career of two famous linguists in the second century gave Gileson great insights into the ways in which the ancient Romans built masculinity during a period of anxiety about retrograde. It was a form of gay and bilingual Romanian art in the second rock movement, and its best practitioners traveled to the empire performing their work in front of an emotional audience.

The language of rhetoric was characterized by the transition to masculinity to all aristocratic citizens and remained crucial to the social status of men. In addressing rhetoric as a process of self-presentation in a face-to-face society, Gleason analyzes the exclusion and sophistication of the book - Favorinius, a eunuch, and a man who met traditional gender expectations - to suggest the ways in which personality and sex are seen.

The physiological texts of the epoch show how men scrutinize each other closely for precise signs of gender bias in features such as walking, nodding, facial expressions, and sound. Training preachers to develop these features in a "masculine" manner.

By examining the successful career of Livinus, whose high presentation contrasts with the sound and the ridiculously funny performances of the traditional style of polo, Gleeson points out that ideal manly behavior is not uniform abstraction. In an easily accessible study, semiotics address the transmission and medical, cultural and ethical issues surrounding rhetorical activity, exploring the possibilities of self-presentation in the search for recognition as a speaker and a man..



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