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Author(s): Joseph Roisman
ISBN(s): 9780520241923, 0520241924
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.40 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0520241924 
ISBN 13: 9780520241923
Author: Joseph Roisman

The concept of manhood was immensely important in ancient Athens, shaping its political, social, legal, and ethical systems. This book, a groundbreaking study of manhood in fourth-century Athens, is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of notions about masculinity found in the Attic orators, who represent one of the most important sources for understanding the social history of this period. While previous studies have assumed a uniform ideology about manhood, Joseph Roisman finds that Athenians had quite varied opinions about what constituted manly values and conduct. He situates the evidence for ideas about manhood found in the Attic orators in its historical, ideological, and theoretical contexts to explore various manifestations of Athenian masculinity as well as the rhetoric that both articulated and questioned it.

Roisman focuses on topics such as the nexus between manhood and age; on Athenian men in their roles as family members, friends, and lovers; on the concept of masculine shame; on relations between social and economic status and manhood; on manhood in the military and politics; on the manly virtue of self-control; and on what men feared.

The Rhetoric of Manhood Masculinity in the Attic Orators 1st Table of contents:

1. Manly Youth
Negative Stereotypes and Realistic Expectations
Educating and Supervising the Young
Young Men in Court
2. The Roles and Responsibilities of the Adult Male: Kurios, Husband, Son, Kinsman, Friend, and Citi
The Kurios: Head of the Household
The Husband: Marital and Extramarital Relationships
Fathers and Sons
The Obligations of Kinship
The Kurios and His Friends
The Kurios and the State
3. Manly Shame
Guarding against Shame
The Rhetoric of Military Defeat
Shame and Violence
The Rhetorical Manipulations of Shame
4. Manhood and Social Standing
Superior Manhood and Elite Status: The Erotic Oration (Dem. 61)
The Unmanly Elite
Manhood and the Masses
5. Men in the Military
The Warrior Ideology
Military Courage and Its Rhetoric
The Rhetoric of War and Peace
The Military Measure
The Double Standard
6. The Struggle over Power
The Manly Demos: The Institutional and Ideological Bases of the Power and Manliness of the Demos
The Power Struggle
Handling Suspicions of the Political Leader as a Man of Words
Handling Suspicions of the Political Leader Stemming from His Activities in the Public Realm
The Demos’s Power and Appeals to Pity
The Demos’s Power and Appeals to Kharis
The Manhood of the Audience and the Speaker
7. Men, Desires, and Self-Control
Giving in to Pleasures
Ambivalence about Yielding to Eros
Ambivalence about Yielding to Wine
The Evils of Greed
The Rhetoric of Self-Control
8. What Men Fear
Beneficial and Legitimate Fears
Overcoming Fear: Cowardice, Courage, and Rashness
Order, Fear of Disorder, and Their Rhetoric
Consistency and Its Rhetoric
Conclusion. Old Age and Manipulating Manhood

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