Toxic Masculinity in the Ancient World

This book looks at a contemporary concept - toxic masculinity - and considers its usefulness for understanding the ancient Mediterranean world. By concentrating on the particular elements that make up this form of masculine behaviour and identity, briefly defined as a performance of masculinity that is harmful to people who should be protected, to one's community, or to oneself, we illuminate tensions and contradictions within Greek and Roman conceptions of gender, while tracing some origins of modern gender roles. This book also highlights the ways that texts and events from the ancient world are invoked in the construction of toxic masculinity today. Covering Athenian oratory and drama, Roman poetry and history, curse tablets, early Christian writing, Italian cinema, US politics, and more, this collection brings together the ancient and modern to ask what shapes a culture's understanding of masculinity and how to identify the aspects of that understanding that can cause harm.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
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Notes on Contributors
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Abbreviation
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Foreword
pp xvii-xviii
- By Donna Zuckerberg
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Introduction: Toxic Masculinity and Classics
pp 1-14
- By Melanie Racette-Campbell, Aven McMaster
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Part I - Violence against Others and Self
pp 15-16
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Chapter 1 - Plutarch and Punishment: Slavery and Toxic Masculinity in Aulus Gellius 1.26
pp 17-26
- By Tristan K. Husby
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Chapter 2 - Attempted Rape as Rite of Passage: Constructing the Christian Feminine Ideal
pp 27-37
- By Kimberly Passaro, Brian P. Sowers
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Chapter 3 - Engendering Justice in a Gendered World: The Case of Thucydides’ Athenians
pp 38-51
- By Jessica Penny Evans
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Chapter 4 - Manliness as Motive for Action: A Discussion of (Toxic) Masculinity in the Antigone and the Lysistrata
pp 52-63
- By Davide Morassi
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Chapter 5 - Toxic Masculinity as a Lens for Middle Byzantium: The Case of Nikephoros II Phokas
pp 64-79
- By Mark Masterson
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Chapter 6 - Boy Toys: A Ciceronian Invective Trope
pp 80-94
- By Joanna Kenty
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Chapter 7 - There’s No Crying in Government: Romulus, Brutus and the Toxic Suppression of Grief
pp 95-110
- By Jaclyn Neel
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Part II - Ancient Critique
pp 111-112
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Chapter 8 - Toxic Masculinity in Petronius’ Satyrica
pp 113-124
- By Jordan D. G. Mitchell
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Chapter 9 - Real Roman Men and the Greeks Who Hate Them: Disciplina, Cato the Elder and Plutarch
pp 125-135
- By Elizabeth A. Manwell
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Chapter 10 - (Toxic) Masculinity between Hegemony and Precariousness: Alternatives to Heteronormativity in Briseis’ Portrait of Achilles (Ov. Her. 3)
pp 136-149
- By Simona Martorana
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Chapter 11 - ‘Angry, reckless, savage’: Problematising the Hypermasculine Germani
pp 150-160
- By Rhiannon Evans
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Chapter 12 - Toxic Masculinity in Xenophon’s Account of the Trial of Sphodrias
pp 161-172
- By Kendell Heydon
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Chapter 13 - Criticism of Roman Men and the Conspicuously Moral Masculinity of Scipio Aemilianus
pp 173-182
- By Charles Goldberg
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Part III - Ancient Meets Modern
pp 183-184
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Chapter 14 - Scipio Africanus and the Construction of Fascist Italian Masculinities
pp 185-198
- By Samuel Agbamu
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Chapter 15 - Insult to Injury: Senecan Stoicism, Misogyny and the Semantics of ‘Special Snowflake’
pp 199-215
- By Michael Goyette
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Chapter 16 - Toxic Manhood Acts and the ‘Nice Guy’ Phenomenon in Ovid
pp 216-230
- By Melissa Marturano
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Chapter 17 - Violence, Victimhood and the Rhetoric of Erotic Curses
pp 231-242
- By Britta Ager
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Chapter 18 - ‘Legitimate Rape’ and Toxic Masculinity from Todd Akin to Soranus
pp 243-256
- By T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
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Chapter 19 - Toxic Masculinity in the First-Year Classics Classroom
pp 257-265
- By Jayne Knight, Jonathan Wallis
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