The Rhetoric of Manhood
Subtitle: Masculinity in the Attic Orators
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780520241923
Subjects: Rhetoric; Sociology; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - General; Men's Studies - Masculinity; History / Ancient / General; Europe - General; Men's Studies - General; Athens; Greece; History; Masculinity; Rhetoric, Ancient; classical age
First sentence: From the age of thirty on, free adult males stood at the pinnacle of the social and political hierarchy of Athens; younger adults ranked lower, as did older men.