Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature : Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael J. Edwards / Athanasios Efstathiou [and three others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Efstathiou, Athanasios, author.

Conference Name:

Philia stēn Archaia Logotechnia kai Proslēpsē (Conference) (2017 : Kalamata, Greece), creator.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; Volume 474.

Mnemosyne, Supplements ; Volume 474

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Greek literature.

Friendship in literature--Congresses.

Friendship in literature.

Carey, Christopher (Classicist) honouree.

Carey, Christopher.

Edwards, Michael, 1958- honouree.

Edwards, Michael.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2023]

Summary:

"Friendship (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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : exploring philia in ancient Greek thought and literature / Christos Kremmydas

Part 1. The poetics of friendship. Three friendships / Michael Edwards

Philia and the poetics of tragedy / Chris Carey

Absent friends : why is friendship less important in tragedy than in the Iliad? / G.O. Hutchinson

A gift-song to an old friend : Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian / Lucia Athanassaki

Charis and charites in Callimachus : friendship in a hostile world / Flora P. Manakidou

Part 2. Dramatic friendships. Philia in Euripidean tragedy / Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou

Antigone's "nearest and dearest" : metapoetry in Euripides' Antigone and Phoenissae / Ioanna Karamanou

Who needed Pylades? / Marco Fantuzzi

Part 3. Friendship and the historian. Friendship in Herodotus / Christopher Pelling

Can you trust Xerxes to be your friend? : friendship and autocracy in Herodotus / Kleanthis Mantzouranis

Friendship in the relations between the cities in Thucydides / Vassileios L. Konstantinopoulos

Friends in arms under the public gaze / Hara Thliveri

Friendship on stone : inscribed narratives of the rescue and ransom of exiles and captives / Adele Scafuro

Part 4. Frinds and enemies in court. Civic friendships and filial duties : representations of political bonds in classical Athens / Jakub Filonik

Friendship betrayed : Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402 BCE / Lene Rubinstein

Blood is (usually) thicker than water : kinship and friendship in ancient Greek inheritance disputes / Brenda Griffith-Williams

The flexibility of the rhetoric of friendship in Athenian courts / Eleni Volonaki

Shifting political friendships in Athens in the age of Demosthenes and Philip II / Athanasios Efstathiou

Part 5. Post-classical friendships. The code "help friends

harm enemies" and the Socratic tradition / Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi

Friendship in Pausanias / K.W. Arafat

Philia in Libanius' letters / Manfred Kraus

Part 6. The afterlife of ancient philia. A friend in need is a friend indeed : Tom Paulin's rescuing of Antigone's afterlife / Dimitrios Kentrotis Zinelis

A modern neo-Platonic friendship / David Konstan.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9789004548671

900454867X

OCLC:

1427668023