When Men Were Men - Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity

When Men Were Men questions the deep-set assumption that men's history speaks and has always spoken for all of us, by exploring the history of classical antiquity as an explicitly masculine story.
With a preface by Sarah Pomeroy, this study employs different methodologies and focuses on a broad range of source materials, periods and places.

List of contents

Introduction, Lin Foxhall; Chapter 1 A brief history of tears, Hans van Wees; Chapter 2 The machismo of the Athenian empire - or the reign of the phaulus?, Paul Cartledge; Chapter 3 Violence, masculinity and the law in classical Athens, Nick Fisher; Chapter 4 Sex and paternity, Eireann Marshall; Chapter 5 The masculinity of the Hellenistic king, Jim Roy; Chapter 6 Sexing a Roman, Jane F. Gardner; Chapter 7 Experiencing the male body in Roman Egypt, Dominic Montserrat; Chapter 8 Imperial cult, Susan Fischler; Chapter 9 The cube and the square, Jill Harries; Chapter 10 'All that may become a man', Keith Hopwood; Chapter 11 Arms and the man, Richard Alston;

About the author

Lin Foxhall is Reader in the School of Archaeological Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the co-editor, with A. S. E. Lewis, of Justifications not Justice: The Political Context of Law in Ancient Greece.

Summary

When Men Were Men employs a variety of critical approaches and methodologies and focuses on a broad range of source materials, periods and places to offer an innovative and challenging study of male dominance in the classical world.

Product details

• Assisted by: Lin Foxhall (Editor), Foxhall Lin (Editor), John Salmon (Editor), Sarah Pomeroy (Introduction)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780415146340
• ISBN: 978-0-415-14634-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Weight: 1450 g
• Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, General & world history, Ancient World, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men