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05159aam a2200469 i 4500 001 55600AEC3A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150804010056 008 140623t20142014pau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014008795 020 $a 0814212689 (cloth) 020 $a 9780814212684 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)875521116 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d CDX $d ZCU $d COO $d VGM $d H9Z $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a aw----- $a e------ $a aw----- 050 00 $a HQ76.2.R6 $b M37 2014 082 00 $a 306.76/6093763 $2 23 084 $a LIT004190 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Masterson, Mark, $e author. 245 10 $a Man to man : $b desire, homosociality, and authority in late-Roman manhood / $c Mark Masterson. 264 1 $a Columbus : $b Ohio State University Press, $c [2014] 300 $a xi, 222 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "In an analysis that promises to be controversial, Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood surveys the presence of same-sex desire between men in the later Roman empire. Most accounts of recent years have either noted that sexual desire between men was forbidden or they have ignored it. This book argues that desire between men was known and that it was a way to express friendship, patronage, solidarity, and other important relationships among elite males in late antiquity. The evocation of this desire and its possible attendant corporeal satisfactions made it a compelling metaphor for friendship. A man's grandeur could also be portrayed metaphorically as sexual attractiveness, and the substantial status differences often seen in late antiquity could be ameliorated by a superior using amatory language to address an inferior. At the same time, however, there was a marked ambivalence about same-sex desire and sexual behavior between men, and indeed same-sex sexual behavior was criminalized as it had never been before. While rejection and condemnation may seem to indicate a decisive distancing between authority and this desire and behavior, authority gained power from maintaining a relation to them. Demonstrating knowledge of the actual mechanics of sex between men suggested to a witness that there was nothing unknown to the authority making the demonstration: authority that knew of scandalous masculine sexual pleasure could project its power pretty much anywhere. This startling dissonance between positive uses of same-sex desire between men and its criminalization in one and the same moment-a dissonance which recent discussions have been unable to address-requires further investigation, and this book supplies it"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "This book discusses same-sex desire among elite, educated Roman men in late antiquity, when same-sex desire could operate as a distinct vehicle for expressing friendship, patronage, solidarity, and other important relationships. Indeed, a man's grandeur or reputation could be portrayed metaphorically, and with some paradox, as sexual attractiveness. Knowledge of the actual mechanics of same-sex sexual behavior demonstrated that there was nothing the elite classes did not know, even of behaviors that were often frowned on and even criminalized. Since Plato's dialogues were widely read and influential among the educated classes, same-sex attraction/knowledge could also operate as a vehicle for rising to the transcendent"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-206) and index. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $t Conclusion. $t Prospect for This Book -- $t Two Men: Setting the Scene -- $t Law and the Knowingness of Authority -- $t A Metaphor for Admirability -- $t Summation and Prior Scholarship on Late-Roman Manhood -- $g ch. 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Three $t Ammianus' Emperors -- $t Introduction -- $t Adventus -- $t Imperial Signature -- $t Aeternitas in the Res Gestae and Beyond -- $t Not a Civil Emperor -- $t Declinatio and Emperor -- $t Conclusion. 650 0 $a Homosexuality $z Rome $x History. 650 0 $a Patron and client $z Rome $x History. 650 0 $a Authority $x History. 650 0 $a Elite (Social sciences) $z Rome $x History. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Authority. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00821653 650 7 $a Elite (Social sciences) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00908113 650 7 $a Homosexuality. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959755 650 7 $a Patron and client. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01055220 651 7 $a Rome (Empire) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204885 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217020242.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826103342.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=55600AEC3A6E11E5A08F40DADAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search