Playing the Man : Performing Masculinities in the Ancient Greek Novel

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Playing the Man : Performing Masculinities in the Ancient Greek NovelDespite the growth of research on masculinity in both Gender and Classical Studies, and the resurgence of interest in ancient fiction, no volume has yet been devoted to exploring the representation of masculinity in ancient Greek novels. This ground breaking study examines and contextualizes three key discourses of ancient Greek masculinity paideia, andreia, and sexual ideology as evidenced in the five 'ideal' Greek novels (namely those of Chariton,

a haunting depiction of the most famous of Olympian punishments

But that insight is hardly new

the only Greek trilogy that survives in full and one of the acknowledged masterpieces of Greek literature

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bloody battles and a natural world fraught with danger from storms

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by one of Virgil's leading interpreters

who would later be brought to life by Shakespeare