Thinking Men provides a thought-provoking and stimulating insight into the representations of men in classical culture.

Part I. Introduction Part II. The Constrained Man Part III. Sculpted Men of Athens: Masculinity and Power in the Field of Vision Part IV. Masculine Values, Feminine Forms: on the gender of personified abstractions Part V. Natural Sex: the attribution of sex and gender to plants in ancient Greece Part VI. Eros the Blacksmith: performing masculinity in Anakreon's love lyrics Part VII. The Male Body as Spectacle in Attic Drama Part VIII. Rape and Young Manhood in Athenian Comedy Part IX. Understanding the Men in Menander Part X. Ideals of Masculinity in New Comedy Part XI. Juvenal, Satire 2: Putting male sexual deviants on show Part XII. In the Name of the Father: Procreation, Paternity and Patriarchy Part XIII. The Old Adam: The Fathers and the unmaking of masculinity Part XIV. The Hero of our Time: Classic heroes and Post-Classical Drama. Bibliography