Andreia : studies in manliness and courage in classical antiquity / / edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter.

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 con...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 238
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2003.
Year of Publication:2003
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 238.
Physical Description:1 online resource (368 pages)
Notes:Consists of a collection of papers presented at the first Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values, held in June 2000 at the University of Leiden.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / RALPH M. ROSEN and INEKE SLUITER
  • GENERAL INTRODUCTION / Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen
  • THE SEMANTICS OF MANLINESS IN ANCIENT GREECE / Karen Bassi
  • THE ANDREIA OF XENOCLES: KOUROS, KALLOS AND KLEOS / G. I. C. Robertson
  • MARVELOUS ANDREIA: POLITICS, GEOGRAPHY, AND ETHNICITY IN HERODOTUS' HISTORIES / Sarah E. Harrell
  • THE ANDREIA OF THE HIPPOCRATIC PHYSICIAN AND THE PROBLEM OF INCURABLES / Ralph M. Rosen and Manfred Horstmanshoff
  • “MOST CITIZENS ARE EURUPRÔKTOI NOW”: (UN)MANLINESS IN ARISTOPHANES / Adriaan Rademaker
  • THE RHETORIC OF COURAGE IN THE ATHENIAN ORATORS / Joseph Roisman
  • THE HIGH COST OF ANDREIA AT ATHENS / Edward E. Cohen
  • THE ORDEAL OF THE DIVINE SIGN: DIVINATION AND MANLINESS IN ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE / Peter T. Struck
  • ARISTOTLE ON ANDREIA, DIVINE AND SUB-HUMAN VIRTUES / Marguerite Deslauriers
  • PARADOXICAL ANDREIA: SOCRATIC ECHOES IN STOIC ‘MANLY COURAGE’ / Helen Cullyer
  • ROMAN MEN AND GREEK VIRTUE / Myles McDonnell
  • ATHLETICS, ANDREIA AND THE ASKÊSIS-CULTURE IN THE ROMAN EAST / Onno van Nijf
  • LIKE THE LABORS OF HERACLES: ANDREIA AND PAIDEIA IN GREEK CULTURE UNDER ROME / Joy Connolly
  • PLUTARCH'S MANLY WOMEN / Jerenny McInerney
  • I INDEX OF GREEK TERMS / RALPH M. ROSEN and INEKE SLUITER
  • SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / J. M. BREMER , L. F. JANSSEN , H. PINKSTER , H. W. PLEKET , C. J. RUIJGH and P. H. SCHRIJVERS.