6. Boy Toys: A Ciceronian Invective Trope

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. Abbreviations xvi
6. Foreword xvii
7. Introduction: Toxic Masculinity and Classics 1
8. PART I Violence against Others and Self
9. 1. Plutarch and Punishment: Slavery and Toxic Masculinity in Aulus Gellius 1.26 15
10. 2. Attempted Rape as Rite of Passage: Constructing the Christian Feminine Ideal 27
11. 3. Engendering Justice in a Gendered World: The Case of Thucydides’ Athenians 38
12. 4. Manliness as Motive for Action: A Discussion of (Toxic) Masculinity in the Antigone and the Lysistrata 52
13. 5. Toxic Masculinity as a Lens for Middle Byzantium: The Case of Nikephoros II Phokas 64
14. 6. Boy Toys: A Ciceronian Invective Trope 80
15. 7. There’s No Crying in Government: Romulus, Brutus and the Toxic Suppression of Grief 95
16. PART II Ancient Critique
17. 8. Toxic Masculinity in Petronius’ Satyrica 111
18. 9. Real Roman Men and the Greeks Who Hate Them: Disciplina, Cato the Elder and Plutarch 125
19. 10. (Toxic) Masculinity between Hegemony and Precariousness: Alternatives to Heteronormativity in Briseis’ Portrait of Achilles (Ov. Her. 3) 136
20. 11. ‘Angry, reckless, savage’: Problematising the Hypermasculine Germani 150
21. 12. Toxic Masculinity in Xenophon’s Account of the Trial of Sphodrias 161
22. 13. Criticism of Roman Men and the Conspicuously Moral Masculinity of Scipio Aemilianus 173
23. PART III Ancient Meets Modern
24. 14. Scipio Africanus and the Construction of Fascist Italian Masculinities 183
25. 15. Insult to Injury: Senecan Stoicism, Misogyny and the Semantics of ‘Special Snowflake’ 199
26. 16. Toxic Manhood Acts and the ‘Nice Guy’ Phenomenon in Ovid 216
27. 17. Violence, Victimhood and the Rhetoric of Erotic Curses 231
28. 18. ‘Legitimate Rape’ and Toxic Masculinity from Todd Akin to Soranus 243
29. 19. Toxic Masculinity in the First-Year Classics Classroom 257
30. Bibliography 266
31. Index Locorum 304
32. Index 308