LEADER 04473oam 22006134a 450 001 9910552785103321 005 20250415215329.0 010 $a9780814273524 010 $a0814273521 035 $a(CKB)2560000000305154 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001387980 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11884136 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001387980 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11383518 035 $a(PQKB)11480304 035 $a(OCoLC)894024947 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35527 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000305154 100 $a20140623d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMan to Man$eDesire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood /$fMark Masterson 210 1$aColumbus :$cOhio State University Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ[2014] 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 222 pages ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780814212684 311 08$a0814212689 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 179-206) and index. 330 $a"This book discusses same-sex desire among elite, educated Roman men in late antiquity, when same-sex desire could operate as a distinct vehicle for expressing friendship, patronage, solidarity, and other important relationships. Indeed, a man's grandeur or reputation could be portrayed metaphorically, and with some paradox, as sexual attractiveness. Knowledge of the actual mechanics of same-sex sexual behavior demonstrated that there was nothing the elite classes did not know, even of behaviors that were often frowned on and even criminalized. Since Plato's dialogues were widely read and influential among the educated classes, same-sex attraction/knowledge could also operate as a vehicle for rising to the transcendent"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"In an analysis that promises to be controversial, Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood surveys the presence of same-sex desire between men in the later Roman empire. Most accounts of recent years have either noted that sexual desire between men was forbidden or they have ignored it. This book argues that desire between men was known and that it was a way to express friendship, patronage, solidarity, and other important relationships among elite males in late antiquity. The evocation of this desire and its possible attendant corporeal satisfactions made it a compelling metaphor for friendship. A man's grandeur could also be portrayed metaphorically as sexual attractiveness, and the substantial status differences often seen in late antiquity could be ameliorated by a superior using amatory language to address an inferior. At the same time, however, there was a marked ambivalence about same-sex desire and sexual behavior between men, and indeed same-sex sexual behavior was criminalized as it had never been before. While rejection and condemnation may seem to indicate a decisive distancing between authority and this desire and behavior, authority gained power from maintaining a relation to them. Demonstrating knowledge of the actual mechanics of sex between men suggested to a witness that there was nothing unknown to the authority making the demonstration: authority that knew of scandalous masculine sexual pleasure could project its power pretty much anywhere. This startling dissonance between positive uses of same-sex desire between men and its criminalization in one and the same moment-a dissonance which recent discussions have been unable to address-requires further investigation, and this book supplies it"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical$2bisacsh 606 $aElite (Social sciences)$zRome$xHistory 606 $aAuthority$zRome$xHistory 606 $aPatron and client$zRome$xHistory 606 $aHomosexuality$zRome$xHistory 615 0$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. 615 0$aElite (Social sciences)$xHistory. 615 0$aAuthority$xHistory. 615 0$aPatron and client$xHistory. 615 0$aHomosexuality$xHistory. 676 $a306.76/6093763 686 $aLIT004190$2bisacsh 700 $aMasterson$b Mark$g(Mark Anthony)$01811797 712 02$aProject Muse 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910552785103321 996 $aMan to Man$94363882 997 $aUNINA