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

• Autores: Chris L. de Wet (res.)
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 617-618
• Idioma: inglés

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

    Mark Masterson

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• Resumen

  • [...]demonstration of knowledge of the physical realities of male same-sex desire and pleasure makes authority more credible . . . [it] has cognizance of these forbidden things" (19). [...]the criminalization of same-sex passion is at the same time its epistemological confirmation. [...]same-sex desire provided men with a language, a metaphor, for speaking about each other's auctoritas/axioma and admirability. Julian, whom Masterson views as a creative mythmaker, like the Neoplatonists, believed that there was a transcendent place that existed prior to and beyond earthly moral evaluations and structures. [...]same-sex desire informs and structures, paradoxically, the empyreal auctoritas of Marcus Aurelius, without any fear of shame or moral contradiction.