Like a young swallowold age and masculinity in ancient Rome

  1. Casamayor Mancisidor, Sara 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Aldizkaria:
Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura

ISSN: 2183-8615,  1645-2259

Argitalpen urtea: 2020

Zenbakia: 20

Orrialdeak: 13-28

Mota: Artikulua

DOI: 10.14195/1645-2259_20_1 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Beste argitalpen batzuk: Revista de História da Sociedade e da Cultura

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Old age is socially perceived as a stage that decreases the value of people. In the case of gender, it subjects people to a process of androgenization that blurs the characteristics of the masculine and the feminine. Thus, men must renegotiate the terms from which masculinity is constructed to adapt it to their situation. This paper analyzes this issue in ancient Rome. We describe how the body of the senex could be seen as non-masculine, placing the old man closer to women than to viri. We settle the characteristics that a good old age must had for ancient Romans, and show how the elderly renegotiated their masculinity, creating a model of wise, moderate, autonomous and authoritarian senex.

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