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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files; many of the books are on hard copy reserve at the Circulation Desk in the Learning Commons.
 
Archaeological & Epigraphic Evidence
 
Barton, Ian M. "Religious Buildings." In Roman Public Buildings (ed. Ian M. Barton; Exeter Studies in History 20; Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989) 67-96, pls. 7, 14-21.
 
Beard, Mary and John Henderson.  "The Emperor's New Body: Ascension from Rome."  In Parchments of Gender: Deciphering the Bodies of Antiquity (ed. Maria Wyke: New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) 191-219.
 
Beard, Mary, John North and Simon Price.  "Maps 1-3."  In Religions of Rome, vol. 1, A History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998) xvi-xxiii.
 
--------.  "The Religions of Imperial Rome."  In Religions of Rome, vol. 1, A History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998) 245-312.  [See especially pp. 296-300]
 
--------.  "Roman Religion and Christian Emperors: Fourth and Fifth Centuries."  In Religions of Rome, vol. 1, A History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998) 364-88.  [Of all the Beard-North-Price excerpts, this is the most relevant]
 
--------.  "Roman Religion and Roman Empire."  In Religions of Rome, vol. 1, A History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998) 313-63.
 
Carter, John.  "Civic and Other Buildings."  In Roman Public Buildings (ed. Ian M. Barton; Exeter Studies in History 20; Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989) 31-65, pls. 2, 5-13.
 
Hemelrijk, Emily A.  "Masculinity and Femininity in the Laudatio Turiae."   Classical Quarterly n.s. 54:1 (2004) 185-97.
 
Kellum, Barbara.  "The Phallus as Signifier: The Forum of Augustus and Rituals of Masculinity."  In Sexuality in Ancient Art: Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Italy (ed. Natalie Boymel Kampen with Bettina Bergmann et al.; Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996) 170-83.
 
McDonnell, Myles.  "Visual Representations of Virtus," and "Epilogue—Roman Manliness and the Principate."  In Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) 142-58, 385-9.  [Note: This book covers a time period a few centuries before your topic; but it draws on archaeology, and some of the conventions change little in the later empire]
 
Owens, E. J.  "Roman Town Planning."  In Roman Public Buildings (ed. Ian M. Barton; Exeter Studies in History 20; Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989) 7-30, pls. 1-4.
 
Round, Martin Charles.  "Roman Masculine Appearance" (ch. 2) and "The Artistic Evidence" (ch. 3).  In "Norms of Masculinity in Roman Society: The Significance of Male Personal Appearance from Cicero to the Death of Hadrian" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1994) 19-152.
 
Wiseman, T. P.  "Afterword: The Theatre of Civic Life."  In Roman Public Buildings (ed. Ian M. Barton; Exeter Studies in History 20; Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989) 151-5.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
Augustine.  The City of God 14.10-11, 22.16-18, trans. Marcus Dods.  In Augustine: City of God, Christian Doctrine (NPNF 2, 1st series; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1994; original, Christian Literature Publishing Company, 1887) 271-2, 495-7.  [In required readings folder on Camino : Files]
 
--------.  On the Trinity 12.10-11, trans. Arthur West Haddan, rev. W. G. T. Shedd.  In Augustine: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises (NPNF 3, 1st series; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1994; original, Christian Literature Publishing Company, 1887) 158-9.  [In required readings folder on Camino : Files]
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Alston, Richard.  "Arms and the Man: Soldiers, Masculinity and Power in Republican and Imperial Rome."  In When Men Were Men: Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity (ed. Lin Foxhall and John Salmon; Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society 8; New York: Routledge, 1998) 205-223.
 
Brown, Peter R. L.  "Augustine: Sexuality and Society."  In The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (Lectures on the History of Religions n-s. 13; New York: Columbia University Press, 1988) 387-427.
 
--------.  "The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity."  Journal of Roman Studies 61 (1971) 80-101.
 
Burrus, Virginia.  "Begotten, Not Made": Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity.   Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.  [Chapter 3, "Spirited Advocacy: Ambrose of Milan," pp. 134-83, 217-22, is in Camino : Files folder for your project; it's an updated version of the following article]
 
--------.  "'Equipped for Victory': Ambrose and the Gendering of Orthodoxy."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 4:4 (1996) 461-75.
 
Gleason, Maud W.  Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome.   Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.
 
Gunderson, Erik T.  Staging Masculinity: The Rhetoric of Performance in the Roman World, The Body, in Theory: Histories of Materialism in the Human Sciences. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, Department of Classical Studies, 2000.
 
Halsall, Guy.  "Gender and the End of Empire."  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34:1 (2004) 17-39.
 
James, Sharon L.  "A Courtesan's Choreography: Female Liberty and Male Anxiety at the Roman Dinner Party."  In Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (ed. Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) 224-51.  Also published in Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on his Seventy-fifth Birthday (ed. William W. Batstone and Garth Tissol; Lang Classical Studies 15; New York: Lang, 2005) 269-99.
 
Kuefler, Mathew.  The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity, The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History and Society.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.
 
Masterson, Mark Anthony.  "Roman Manhood at the End of the Ancient World."  Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2001.
 
O’Hara, S. F.  "Patria Potestas: A Brief Re-examination."  In Ancient History in a Modern University: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Macquarie University, 8-13 July 1993 To Mark the Twenty-five Years of the Teaching of Ancient History at Macquarrie University and the Retirement from the Chair of Professor Edwin Judge, vol. 1, The Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome (ed. Tom W. Hillard, R. A. Kearsley, C. E. V. Nixon and A. M. Nobbs; North Ryde, N.S.W./Grand Rapids, Michigan: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University/William B. Eerdmans, 1998) 1.210-16.
 
Round, Martin Charles.  "Norms of Masculinity in Roman Society: The Significance of Male Personal Appearance from Cicero to the Death of Hadrian."  Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1994.  [Chs. 2-3 on Camino : Files; professor has copy of entire book]
 
Sawyer, Erin.  "Celibate Pleasures: Masculinity, Desire, and Asceticism in Augustine."  Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:1 (1995-1996) 1-29.
 
Walters, Jonathan.  "Invading the Roman Body: Manliness and Impenetrability in Roman Thought."  In Roman Sexualities (ed. Judith P. Hallett and Marilyn B. Skinner; Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997) 29-43.
 
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