Playing the Man - Performing Masculinities in the Ancient Greek Novel

Informationen zum Autor Meriel Jones was Lecturer in Classics at the University of Wales Lampeter from 2006-8, and is a founder-member of KYKNOS, the Swansea and Lampeter ancient narrative research centre. Her doctoral thesis, Playing the Man: Performing Masculinities in the Greek Novel, was joint winner of the Hellenic Foundation 2007 Award for best doctoral thesis in the Ancient Literature, Philosophy, and Archaeology category. She has published on gender, ekphrasis, magic, and personal names in the Greek novels, and is currently Honorary Research Fellow of the Department of Classics at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Klappentext This study examines and contextualizes key discourses of ancient Greek masculinity in the five 'ideal' Greek novels. Using modern theories of the 'performance' of gender, Jones argues that many of the novels' men depend very much on the maintenance of their image before others - that they are conscious of 'playing the man'. Zusammenfassung This study examines and contextualizes key discourses of ancient Greek masculinity in the five 'ideal' Greek novels. Using modern theories of the 'performance' of gender, Jones argues that many of the novels' men depend very much on the maintenance of their image before others - that they are conscious of 'playing the man'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 Paideia The history and social context of paideia The gendering of paideia Male paideia in the novels Concluding remarks 2 Andreia Defining and contextualizing andreia The gendering of andreia Male andreia in the novels Concluding remarks 3 Masculinity and Sexual Ideology Introduction Resisting ideology? Imperilled masculinity Masculinity as role-play A man with women and a woman with men Concluding remarks Conclusion References Index Locorum General Index

Product details

• Authors: Meriel Jones, Meriel (Honorary Research Fellow Jones, Jones Meriel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2012
• EAN: 9780199570089
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957008-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory; Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory; Oxford Studies in Classical Li
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form