Andreia

Studies in Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity

• Author(s): Ralph Mark Rosen, Ineke Sluiter,
• Publisher: Brill
• Pages: 359
• ISBN_10: 9004119957
  ISBN_13: 9789004119956
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Architecture / Interior Design / General , Foreign Language Study / Ancient Languages , History / Ancient / General , History / Civilization , Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical , Literary Criticism / Medieval , Psychology / General , Social Science / Men's Studies ,

Description:... This volume examines the use of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek speaking male: Andreia, the notion of courage and manliness. The nature and use of value terms quickly leads the researcher to core issues of cultural identity: through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the discourse of manliness and its role in the construction of social order is studied, in a variety of authors, genres, and communicative situations.
This book is of interest to students of the classical world, the history of values, gender studies, and cultural historians.