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Zusatztext 'An ideal companion to Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-representation in the Classical Tradition.' - Oxon Book Review'This book certainly deserves to be in college libraries as an important resource for the growing study of ancient social relations.' -The Anglo-Hellenic Review Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;
