How to be a (Roman) man

Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination

by Catharine Edwards

https://aeon.co/essays/the-politics-of-masculinity-at-the-end-of-the-roman-republic?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b29fddaff0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_10_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972

Books by Cicero at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/128

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