When Men Were Men employs a variety of critical approaches and methodologies and focuses on a broad range of source materials, periods and places to offer an innovative and challenging study of male dominance in the classical world.

Lin Foxhall is Reader in the School of Archaeological Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the co-editor, with A. S. E. Lewis, of Justifications not Justice: The Political Context of Law in Ancient Greece.

Introduction, Lin Foxhall; Chapter 1 A brief history of tears, Hans van Wees; Chapter 2 The machismo of the Athenian empire - or the reign of the phaulus?, Paul Cartledge; Chapter 3 Violence, masculinity and the law in classical Athens, Nick Fisher; Chapter 4 Sex and paternity, Eireann Marshall; Chapter 5 The masculinity of the Hellenistic king, Jim Roy; Chapter 6 Sexing a Roman, Jane F. Gardner; Chapter 7 Experiencing the male body in Roman Egypt, Dominic Montserrat; Chapter 8 Imperial cult, Susan Fischler; Chapter 9 The cube and the square, Jill Harries; Chapter 10 'All that may become a man', Keith Hopwood; Chapter 11 Arms and the man, Richard Alston;