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<p>The careers of two popular second-century rhetorical virtuosos offer Maud Gleason fascinating insights into the ways ancient Romans constructed masculinity during a time marked by anxiety over manly deportment. Declamation was an exhilarating art form for the Greeks and bilingual Romans of the Second Sophistic movement, and its best practitioners would travel the empire performing in front of enraptured audiences. The mastery of rhetoric marked the transition to manhood for all aristocratic c
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- Author
- Gleason, Maud W., 1954-
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, c1995.
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691048000
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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