Roman Homosexuality : Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical AntiquityOxford University Press, USA, 12 may 1999 - 416 páginas This book provides a thoroughly documented discussion of ancient Roman ideologies of masculinity and sexuality with a focus on ancient representations of sexual experience between males. It gathers a wide range of evidence from the second century B.C. to the second century A.D.--above all from such literary texts as courtroom speeches, love poetry, philosophy, epigram, and history, but also graffiti and other inscriptions as well as artistic artifacts--and uses that evidence to reconstruct the contexts within which Roman texts were created and had their meaning. The book takes as its starting point the thesis that in order to understand the Roman material, we must make the effort to set aside any preconceptions we might have regarding sexuality, masculinity, and effeminacy. Williams' book argues in detail that for the writers and readers of Roman texts, the important distinctions were drawn not between homosexual and heterosexual, but between free and slave, dominant and subordinate, masculin and effeminate as conceived in specifically Roman terms. Other important questions addressed by this book include the differences between Roman and Greek practices and ideologies; the influence exerted by distinctively Roman ideals of austerity; the ways in which deviations from the norms of masculine sexual practice were negotiated both in the arena of public discourse and in real men's lives; the relationship between the rhetoric of "nature" and representations of sexual practices; and the extent to which same-sex marriages were publicly accepted. |
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... chapters 3 and 5 ) . Since I seek to reconstruct ancient discourses on their own terms as far as possible , I ... chapter 5 for this concept ) .18 Similarly , I employ the adjective " homoerotic " and the phrase " same - sex" — as ...
... chapters 3 and 5 ) . Since I seek to reconstruct ancient discourses on their own terms as far as possible , I ... chapter 5 for this concept ) .18 Similarly , I employ the adjective " homoerotic " and the phrase " same - sex" — as ...
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... chapter 5 . The Question of Diachronic Change What kinds of sources are available for this kind of inquiry ... chapters , where I argue that only the specific practice of paiderastia , or sexual and romantic relations between citizen men ...
... chapter 5 . The Question of Diachronic Change What kinds of sources are available for this kind of inquiry ... chapters , where I argue that only the specific practice of paiderastia , or sexual and romantic relations between citizen men ...
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... ( chapter 3 ) ; second , an opposition between masculine and effeminate traits or behaviors that was not aligned with the distinction between heterosexual and homo- sexual acts and that relied instead on the association of masculinity ...
... ( chapter 3 ) ; second , an opposition between masculine and effeminate traits or behaviors that was not aligned with the distinction between heterosexual and homo- sexual acts and that relied instead on the association of masculinity ...
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... chapters I discuss the evidence for this view ( which has been espoused by other scholars ) , but I also ask how ... Chapter 2 then proceeds to explore certain specifically Roman features of the cultural landscape detectable in the ...
... chapters I discuss the evidence for this view ( which has been espoused by other scholars ) , but I also ask how ... Chapter 2 then proceeds to explore certain specifically Roman features of the cultural landscape detectable in the ...
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... chapter 5 , deserves to be reiterated . What was at stake was less a man's actual behavior and more the appearance he gave and the image he had ; how he was seen and talked about by his peers more than what he actually did in the ...
... chapter 5 , deserves to be reiterated . What was at stake was less a man's actual behavior and more the appearance he gave and the image he had ; how he was seen and talked about by his peers more than what he actually did in the ...
Índice
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Greece and Rome | 62 |
The Concept of Stuprum | 96 |
Effeminacy and Masculinity | 125 |
Sexual Roles and Identities | 160 |
Conclusions | 225 |
The Rhetoric of Nature and SameSex Practices | 231 |
Marriage between Males | 245 |
Notes | 259 |
Works Cited | 367 |
General Index | 391 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 210 - The nineteenth-century homosexual became a personage, a past, a case history, and a childhood, in addition to being a type of life, a life form, and a morphology, with an indiscreet anatomy and possibly a mysterious physiology.
Página 164 - Nam castum esse decet pium poetam Ipsum, versículos nihil necesse est, Qui turn denique habent salem ac leporem, Si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici Et quod pruriat incitare possunt, io Non dico pueris, sed his pilosis, Qui duros nequeunt moveré lumbos.
Página 117 - Amplius, aut tantum potuit perferre dolorem : Me, me, adsum, qui feci, in me convertite ferrum, O Rutuli, mea fraus omnis : nihil iste nec ausus, Nec potuit ; caelum hoc et conscia sidera testor ; Tantum infelicem nimium dilexit amicum.
Página 47 - Verum si quis est qui etiam meretriciis amoribus inter- 48 dictum iuventuti putet, est ille quidem valde severus — negare non possum — sed abhorret non modo ab huius saeculi licentia verum etiam a maiorum consuetudine atque concessis.
Página 28 - ... umor. sic igitur Veneris qui telis accipit ictus, sive puer membris muliebribus hunc iaculatur seu mulier toto iactans e corpore amorem, unde feritur, eo tendit gestitque coire 1053 et iacere umorem in corpus de corpore ductum.
Página 155 - Quae tamen etsi uno non est contenta Catullo, Rara verecundae furta feremus erae, Ne nimium simus stultorum more molesti : Saepe etiam luno, maxima caelicolum, Coniugis in culpa flagrantem contudit iram, 140 Noscens omnivoli plurima furta lovis.
Página 147 - Quomodo Maecenas vixerit notius est, quam ut narrari nunc debeat, quomodo ambulaverit, quam delicatus fuerit, quam cupierit videri, quam vitia sua latere noluerit.
Página 115 - Accubat, et manibus prohibet contingere mensas, ' Exsurgitque facem attollens, atque intonat ore. ' Hic, quibus invisi fratres, dum vita manebat, ' Pulsatusve parens, et fraus innexa clienti, 'Aut qui divitiis soli incubuere repertis, 610 'Nec partem posuere suis (quae maxima turba est); ' Quique ob adulterium caesi, quique arma secuti ' Impia, nec veriti dominorum fallere dextras,
Página 7 - But what have varied enormously are the ways in which various societies have regarded homosexuality, the meanings they have attached to it, and how those who were engaged in homosexual activity viewed themselves. ... As a starting point we have to distinguish between homosexual behavior, which is universal, and a homosexual identity, which is historically...
Página 310 - Cerrinios; et nocturnum sacrum ei diurno, et pro tribus in anno diebus quinos singulis mensibus dies initiorum fecisse. ex quo in promiscuo sacra sint et permixti viri feminis, et noctis licentia accesserit, nihil ibi facinoris, nihil flagitii praetermissum. plura virorum inter sese quam feminarum esse stupra. si qui minus patientes dedecoris sint et pignores ad facinus , pro victimis immolari.