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

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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

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