Andreia - Studies in Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Ralph M. Rosen is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania! Philadelphia! USA. He has published extensively on archaic and classical Greek poetry! with particular focus on comic and satirical genres. Ineke Sluiter is Professor of Greek in the University of Leiden! the Netherlands. She has published extensively on ancient ideas on language and literature! and their cultural impact. Klappentext This volume examines issues of courage and manliness in the ancient world. Taking the Greek concept of "Andreia" as its starting-point, it sheds new light on the contruction of cultural identity, and the use of value terms in that process.

Product details

• Authors: John D. Grainger, Ralph M. Rosen, Ineke Sluiter
• Assisted by: Rosen (Editor), R. M. Rosen (Editor), Ralph Rosen (Editor), Sluiter (Editor), I. Sluiter (Editor), Ineke Sluiter (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2002
• EAN: 9789004119956
• ISBN: 978-90-0-411995-6
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 248 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classic; Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classic; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity