{"product_id":"friendship-in-ancient-greek-thought-and-literature-essays-in-honour-of-chris-carey-and-michael-j-edwards-9789004546332","title":"Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature: Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael J. Edwards","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFriendship (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210867466583,"sku":"9789004546332","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/friendship-in-ancient-greek-thought-and-literature-essays-in-honour-of-chris-carey-and-michael-j-edwards-9789004546332","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}