Thinking Men Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition

Like its companion book "When Men Were Men" (Routledge, 1998), "Thinking Men" explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation and reiteration of that male self as presented in language, poetry, drama, philosophical and scientific thought and art: man constructing himself as subject in classical antiquity and beyond. This beautifully illustrated volume, which contains a preface by Nathalie Kampen, provides a thought-provoking and stimulating insight into the representations of men in classical culture.

Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and iteration of that male self as presented in language, poetry, drama, philosophical and scientific thought and art: man constructing himself as subject in classical antiquity and beyond. This beautifully illustrated volume, which contains a preface by Nathalie Kampen, provides a thought-provoking and stimulating insight into the representations of men in Classical culture.

Part I. Introduction Part II. The Constrained Man Part III. Sculpted Men of Athens: Masculinity and Power in the Field of Vision Part IV. Masculine Values, Feminine Forms: on the gender of personified abstractions Part V. Natural Sex: the attribution of sex and gender to plants in ancient Greece Part VI. Eros the Blacksmith: performing masculinity in Anakreon's love lyrics Part VII. The Male Body as Spectacle in Attic Drama Part VIII. Rape and Young Manhood in Athenian Comedy Part IX. Understanding the Men in Menander Part X. Ideals of Masculinity in New Comedy Part XI. Juvenal, Satire 2: Putting male sexual deviants on show Part XII. In the Name of the Father: Procreation, Paternity and Patriarchy Part XIII. The Old Adam: The Fathers and the unmaking of masculinity Part XIV. The Hero of our Time: Classic heroes and Post-Classical Drama. Bibliography

Foxhall, Lin; Salmon, John