Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Abbreviations; Preface, Donna Zuckerberg; Introduction: Toxic Masculinity and Classics, Melanie Racette-Campbell and Aven McMaster; I. Violence against Others and Self; 1. Plutarch and Punishment: Slavery and Toxic Masculinity in Aulus Gellius 1.26, Tristan K. Husby; 2. Attempted Rape as Rite of Passage: Constructing the Christian Feminine Ideal, Kim Passaro and Brian P. Sowers; 3. Engendering Justice in a Gendered World: The Case of Thucydides' Athenians, Jessica Penny Evans; 4.
Manliness as Motive for Action: A Discussion of (Toxic) Masculinity in the Antigone and the Lysistrata, Davide Morassi; 5. Toxic Masculinity as a Lens for Middle Byzantium: The Case of Nikephoros II Phokas, Mark Masterson; 6. Boy Toys: A Ciceronian Invective, Joanna Kenty; 7. There's No Crying in Government: Romulus, Brutus, and the Toxic Suppression of Grief, Jaclyn Neel; II. Ancient Critique; 8. Toxic Masculinity in Petronius' Satyrica, Jordan D. G. Mitchell; 9.
Real Roman Men and the Greeks Who Hate Them: Disciplina, Cato the Elder, and Plutarch, Elizabeth Manwell; 10. (Toxic) Masculinity between Hegemony and Precariousness: Alternatives to Heteronormativity in Briseis' Portrait of Achilles (Ov. Her. 3), Simona Martorana; 11. 'Angry, Reckless, Savage': Problematising the Hypermasculine Germani, Rhiannon Evans; 12. Toxic Masculinity in Xenophon's Account of the Trial of Sphodrias, Kendell Heydon; 13. Criticism of Roman Men and the Conspicuously Moral Masculinity of Scipio Aemilianus, Charles Goldberg; III. Ancient Meets Modern; 14.
Scipio Africanus and the Construction of Fascist Italian Masculinities, Samuel Agbamu; 15. Insult to Injury: Senecan Stoicism, Misogyny, and the Semantics of 'Special Snowflake', Michael Goyette; 16. Toxic Manhood Acts and the 'Nice Guy' Phenomenon in Ovid, Melissa Marturano; 17. Violence, Victimhood, and the Rhetoric of Erotic Curses, Britta Ager; 18. 'Legitimate Rape' and Toxic Masculinity from Todd Akin to Soranus, T.H.M. Gellar-Goad; 19.
Toxic Masculinity in the First-Year Classics Classroom, Jayne Knight and Jonathan Wallis; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index.