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

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;

Biography

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.

'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