Andreia : Studies in Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity, (Mnemosyne, Suppl. 238), 2003, 362 p., 3 ill., rel. -

This volume examines the use of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek speaking male : Andreia, the notion of courage and manliness. The nature and use of value terms quickly leads the researcher to core issues of cultural identity : through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the discourse of manliness and its role in the construction of social order is studied, in a variety of authors, genres, and communicative situations.