Playing The Man Performing Masculinities In The Ancient Greek Novel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780199570089
Description: Examining and contextualising key discourses of ancient Greek masculinity in the five 'ideal' Greek novels, Jones argues that many of the novels' men depend very much on the maintenance of their image before others, and that they are conscious of 'playing the man'.