Title In the orbit of love : affection in ancient Greece and Rome / David Konstan

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) Contents Introduction -- Loyalty: the missing virtue -- Gratitude and liberality -- Grief and the self -- Love and the state -- Conclusion Summary This book is about love in the classical world – not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but which may also be extended to include a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply. The book includes chapters on friendship, especially the idea that a friend is another self; loyalty, and why loyalty was not a prominent virtue in classical thought; generosity and gratitude; grief in response to the loss of a loved one; and, finally, civic solidarity. Love, it is argued, underpins all these relations. Thus, rather than describing these affective ties in terms of reciprocity, which involves an expectation of return and a kind of selfishness or egoism, the book argues that these are truly other-regarding sentiments. It is acknowledged that the ancient sources sometimes describe these relations, including friendship, as forms of mutual obligation, but this book focuses on the counter strand in the literature that emphasizes genuine altruism. The study of how love drew into its orbit the various relations examined in this book sheds light on some central features not only of ancient habits of thought but also our own Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 13, 2018) Subject Interpersonal relations -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 Interpersonal relations -- Rome -- History Love -- Social aspects -- Greece Love -- Social aspects -- Rome Love. Friendship. Intimacy (Psychology) Emotions -- Social aspects Social interaction. Greek literature -- History and criticism Latin literature -- History and criticism love (emotion) PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology. Emotions -- Social aspects Friendship Greek literature Intimacy (Psychology) Latin literature Love Social interaction Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190887889 0190887885 9780190887896 0190887893 9780190904579 0190904577

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