Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the by Lin Foxhall,John Salmon

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By Lin Foxhall,John Salmon

Thinking Men explores creative and highbrow expression within the classical international because the self illustration of guy. It starts off from the basis that the historical past of classical antiquity because the ancients inform it's a background of guys. despite the fact that, the point of interest of this quantity is the construction, new edition and new release of that male self as offered in language, poetry, drama, philosophical and clinical concept and paintings: guy developing himself as topic in classical antiquity and past. This superbly illustrated quantity, which includes a preface via Nathalie Kampen, offers a thought-provoking and stimulating perception into the representations of guys in Classical culture.

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