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Title Andreia : studies in manliness and courage in classical antiquity / edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations
Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 238
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 238.
Contents Semantics of manliness in ancient Greece / Karen Bassi -- Andreia of Xenocles / G.I.C. Robertson -- Marvelous Andreia / Sarah E. Harrell -- Andreia of the Hippocratic physician and the problem of incurables / Ralph M. Rosen and Manfred Horstmanshoff -- Most citizens are Europrôktoi now / Adriaan Rademaker -- Rhetoric of courage in the Athenian orators / Joseph Roisman -- High Cost of Andreia at Athens / Edward E. Cohen -- Ordeal of the divine sign / Peter T. Struck -- Aristotle on Andreia, divine and sub-human virtues / Marguerite Deslauriers -- Paradoxical Andreia / Helen Cullyer -- Roman men and Greek virtue / Myles McDonnell -- Andreia and the Askêsis-culture in the Roman East / Onno van Nijf -- Like the labors of Heracles / Joy Connolly -- Plutarch's manly women / Jeremy McInerney
Summary An examination of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek-speaking male: "Andreia", the notion of courage and manliness. Through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the discourse of manliness and its role in the construction of social order is explored
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Andreia (The Greek word)
Classical literature -- History and criticism
Greek language -- Semantics
Masculinity -- Terminology
Civilization, Classical.
Courage -- Terminology
Civilization, Ancient.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
Civilization, Ancient
Andreia (The Greek word)
Civilization, Classical
Classical literature
Courage
Greek language -- Semantics
Masculinity
Männlichkeit
Mannelijkheid.
Moed.
Klassieke oudheid.
Griechenland Altertum
Griechenland <Altertum>
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Terminology
Form Electronic book
Author Rosen, Ralph Mark.
Sluiter, I. (Ineke)
ISBN 141750675X
9781417506750
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9789047400738
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9781280464577
9786610464579
661046457X