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Maud Gleason

Position: 

Lecturer of Classics
PhD Berkeley 1990

Contact Information: 

Email: maud@stanford.edu
Office: Building 110, Room 211
(650) 724-5197
Mailcode: 2145

Office Hours: 

Spring Quarter Thursdays 12:00-2:00 EXCEPT April 16, 23, and May 23, when I will be out of town. Please email me to set up alternative arrangements.

CV: 
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CV-2011-Gleason.doc
Biography: 

Maud Gleason studies the cultural and social world of Greeks in the Roman Empire, with a particular interest in issues of gender, religion, self-performance, and power. She is the author of Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome (Princeton 1995; paperback 2008). She has recently published a study of Galen's public anatomical displays, and another on the cultural identity of the Roman Empire's best-documented private citizen, the Athenian millionaire Herodes Atticus, who married a Roman patrician. She admits a weakness for entertaining narratives, and enjoys trying to wrest from them deeper cultural meanings. Her essay, "Identity Theft: Doubles and Masquerades in Cassius Dio's Contemporary History," Classical Antiquity 30. 1, is now available at

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/CA.2011.30.1.33 

 

Current Projects: 
Her current book project, a development of her 2008 Jerome lectures, treats the history and mythology of an imaginary disease thought to reduce the sufferer to a subhuman state. The pharmacology and mythology of its cure suggests a second-century CE fascination with transformation of the flesh.

Selected Courses

Selected Publications

Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome (Paperback edn.)(Maud Gleason) 4 February 2008