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Book SynopsisFriendship (philia) is a complex and multi-faceted concept that is frequently attested in ancient Greek literature and thought. It is also an important social phenomenon and an institution that features in classical Greek social, cultural, and intellectual history. This collected volume seeks to complement the extensive modern scholarship on this topic by shedding light on complementary representations, nuances and tensions of friendship in a range of different sources, literary, epigraphic, and visual. It offers a broad overview of the contours of this important social phenomenon and helps the reader get a glimpse of its depth and richness.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Exploring philia in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature Christos Kremmydas Part 1 The Poetics of Friendship 1 Three Friendships Michael J. Edwards 2 Philia and the Poetics of Tragedy Chris Carey 3 Absent Friends: Why Is Friendship Less Important in Tragedy Than in the Iliad? G.O. Hutchinson 4 A Gift-Song to an Old Friend: Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian Lucia Athanassaki 5 Charis and Charites in Callimachus: Friendship in a Hostile World Flora P. Manakidou Part 2 Dramatic Friendships 6 Philia in Euripidean Tragedy Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou 7 Antigone’s “Nearest and Dearest”: Metapoetry in Euripides’ Antigone and Phoenissae Ioanna Karamanou 8 Who Needed Pylades? Marco Fantuzzi Part 3 Friendship and the Historian 9 Friendship in Herodotus Christopher Pelling 10 Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in Herodotus Kleanthis Mantzouranis 11 Friendship in the Relations between the Cities in Thucydides Vasileios L. Konstantinopoulos 12 Friends in Arms under the Public Gaze Hara Thliveri 13 Friendship on Stone: Inscribed Narratives of the Rescue and Ransom of Exiles and Captives Adele Scafuro Part 4 Friends and Enemies in Court 14 Civic Friendships and Filial Duties: Representations of Political Bonds in Classical Athens Jakub Filonik 15 Friendship Betrayed: Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402 BCE Lene Rubinstein 16 Blood Is (Usually) Thicker Than Water: Kinship and Friendship in Ancient Greek Inheritance Disputes Brenda Griffith-Williams 17 The Flexibility of the Rhetoric of Friendship in Athenian Courts Eleni Volonaki 18 Shifting Political Friendships in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes and Philip II Athanasios Efstathiou Part 5 Post-classical Friendships 19 The Code “Help Friends—Harm Enemies” and the Socratic Tradition Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi 20 Friendship in Pausanias K.W. Arafat 21 Philia in Libanius’ Letters Manfred Kraus Part 6 The Afterlife of Ancient philia 22 A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Tom Paulin’s Rescuing of Antigone’s Afterlife Dimitris Kentrotis Zinelis 23 A Modern Neo-Platonic Friendship David Konstan General Index Names Index
