Rules of attraction: Greek influence

[guy]

The “Thermae boxer” resting after a match, 2-3 century B.C.E.Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen

 

Here's an interesting article dealing with the difference between Greek and Roman masculinity

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To be a free Roman meant your body could not be violated. In the words of historian Amy Richlin, “To be penetrated, for a Roman, was degrading both in a physical sense of invasion, rupture, and contamination, and in a class sense: the penetrated person’s body was likened to the body of a slave.” This emphasis on virility and conquest is slightly different to the Greeks’ obsession with pederasty and pedagogy, but to much the same ends.

 

The Rules of Attraction | Lapham’s Quarterly (laphamsquarterly.org)

 

 

There have been previous threads dealing with male masculinity. (See thread below.)

 

 

 

Edited June 5, 2022 by guy