Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature : : Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael J. Edwards.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, Supplements Series ; v.474
• Author: Philia stēn Archaia Logotechnia kai Proslēpsē (Conference); Efstathiou, Athanasios.
• TeilnehmendeR: Filonik, Jakub.; Kremmydas, Christos.; Volonaki, Eleni.; Philia stēn Archaia Logotechnia kai Proslēpsē (Conference) (2017 : Kalamata, Greece),
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (486 pages)
• Other title: Introduction : exploring philia in ancient Greek thought and literature /; Three friendships /; Philia and the poetics of tragedy /; Absent friends : why is friendship less important in tragedy than in the Iliad? /; A gift-song to an old friend : Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian /; Charis and charites in Callimachus : friendship in a hostile world /; Philia in Euripidean tragedy /; Antigone's "nearest and dearest" : metapoetry in Euripides' Antigone and Phoenissae /; Who needed Pylades? /; Friendship in Herodotus /; Can you trust Xerxes to be your friend? : friendship and autocracy in Herodotus /; Friendship in the relations between the cities in Thucydides /; Friends in arms under the public gaze /; Friendship on stone : inscribed narratives of the rescue and ransom of exiles and captives /; Civic friendships and filial duties : representations of political bonds in classical Athens /; Friendship betrayed : Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402 BCE /; Blood is (usually) thicker than water : kinship and friendship in ancient Greek inheritance disputes /; The flexibility of the rhetoric of friendship in Athenian courts /; Shifting political friendships in Athens in the age of Demosthenes and Philip II /; The code "help friends--harm enemies" and the Socratic tradition /; Friendship in Pausanias /; Philia in Libanius' letters /; A friend in need is a friend indeed : Tom Paulin's rescuing of Antigone's afterlife /; A modern neo-Platonic friendship /
• ISBN: 900454867X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

"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"--