ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|44 pages

A brief history of tears

Gender differentiation in archaic Greece

chapter 4|13 pages

Sex and paternity

Gendering the foundation of Kyrene

chapter 5|25 pages

The masculinity of the Hellenistic king

chapter 6|17 pages

Sexing a Roman

Imperfect men in Roman law

chapter 8|19 pages

Imperial cult

Engendering the cosmos

chapter 9|11 pages

The cube and the square

Masculinity and male social roles in Roman Boiotia

chapter 10|10 pages

‘All that may become a man'

The bandit in the ancient novel

chapter 11|19 pages

Arms and the man

Soldiers, masculinity and power in Republican and Imperial Rome