Beschreibung:
Ralph M. Rosen is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He has published extensively on archaic and classical Greek poetry, with particular focus on comic and satirical genres. Ineke Sluiter is Professor of Greek in the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. She has published extensively on ancient ideas on language and literature, and their cultural impact.
This volume examines issues of courage and manliness in the ancient world. Taking the Greek concept of "Andreia" as its starting-point, it sheds new light on the contruction of cultural identity, and the use of value terms in that process.