Gender
Epic Manliness
In 2008, I took the “Æneid” class at the University of Texas. It was a great class where we used Clyde Pharr’s student edition of the text for the course. In one of annotations, I found one of the most fascinating descriptions of ancient masculinity I have ever read:
- frigiore: chilly fear; the ancient heroes were not ashamed to display their emotions, and often gave way to terror or grief. They weep copiously on occasion, and are no more dainty about the shedding of tears than the shedding of blood