Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• King, Richard Jackson

Titel

Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood

Ist Teil von

• American Journal of Philology, 2016, Vol.137 (2), p.369-372

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UNIVERSITY PRESS

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]late Platonizing paideia, Masterson argues, led to a late-ancient tendency to "metaphorize" same-sex eroticism to portray with eroticized "glamour" the transcendent qualities of authority figures. John Boswell's application of modern categories ("gay" and "homosexuality") to the ancient social world (in Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, 1980) became problematic in the light of social constructionism (holding that sexual identities are culturally constructed, differently at different times and locations), which led some to assume that same-sex desire ought not be reified as a substantial thing capable of contributing to late ancient male identity. [...]Michel Foucault's second and third volumes of The History of Sexuality (1985, 1986) drew conclusions about late-ancient sexuality primarily from texts that dogmatically demarcate manhood from sex between men, while overlooking contrary representations.