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

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Preface
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Ch. 1Favorinus and His Statue3
Ch. 2Portrait of Polemo: The Deportment of the Public Self21
Ch. 3Deportment as Language Physiognomy and the Semiotics of Gender55
Ch. 4Aerating the Flesh: Voice Training and the Calisthenics of Gender82
Ch. 5Voice and Virility in Rhetorical Writers103
Ch. 6Manhood Achieved through Speech: A Eunuch-Philosopher's Self-Fashioning131
Conclusion159
A Note on Finding Sources in Translation169
Select Bibliography171
Index Locorum175
General Index187

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