Thinking Men: Masculinity and Its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition (Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society, Vol 7)

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Summary: Excellent collection on a new subject!
Review: It is often said that history is about men. This is incorrect. History is about what men do -- politics, war, science, etc which until modern history has been the primarily arenas of males. However, how men see themselves, what it means to be a man, and how each society differs in this regard is a fairly new topic. Foxhall and Salmon collect wonderful and well written essays about how men viewed themselves in Greece and Roman in antiquity. I am using it extensively in the course I'm teaching at Indiana University fall 2000! I highly recommend it to professors in history, classics, and gender studies.