When Men were Men. Masculinity, Power and Identity in Classical Antiquity

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Lin Foxhall - Introduction......Page 15
1. Hans van Wees - A brief history of tears: gender differentiation in archaic Greece......Page 24
2. Paul Cartledge - The machismo of the Athenian empire - or the reign of the phaulus?......Page 68
3. Nick Fisher - Violence, masculinity and the law in classical Athens......Page 82
4. Eireann Marshall - Sex and paternity: gendering the foundation of Kyrene......Page 112
5. Jim Roy - The masculinity of the Hellenistic king......Page 125
6. Jane F. Gardner - Sexing a Roman: imperfect men in Roman law......Page 150
7. Dominic Montserrat - Experiencing the male body in Roman Egypt......Page 167
8. Susan Fischler - Imperial cult: engendering the cosmos......Page 179
9. Jill Harries - The cube and the square. Masculinity and male social roles in Roman Boiotia......Page 198
10. Keith Hopwood - \'All that may become a man\': the bandit in the ancient novel......Page 209
11. Richard Alston - Arms and the man. Soldiers, masculinity and power in Republican and Imperial Rome......Page 219
Bibliography......Page 238
Index of ancient authors......Page 262
General Index......Page 268