| Description |
1 online resource (486 p.) |
| Series |
Mnemosyne, Supplements Series ; v.474 |
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Mnemosyne, Supplements Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. Exploring Philia in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature (Kremmydas) -- Part 1. The Poetics of Friendship -- Chapter 1. Three Friendships (Edwards) -- Chapter 2. Philia and the Poetics of Tragedy (Carey) -- Chapter 3. Absent Friends: Why Is Friendship Less Important in Tragedy Than in the Iliad? (Hutchinson) -- Chapter 4. A Gift-Song to an Old Friend: Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian (Athanassaki) |
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Chapter 5. Charis and Charites in Callimachus: Friendship in a Hostile World (Manakidou) -- Part 2. Dramatic Friendships -- Chapter 6. Philia in Euripidean Tragedy (Xanthaki-Karamanou) -- Chapter 7. Antigone's 'Nearest and Dearest': Metapoetry in Euripides' Antigone and Phoenissae (Karamanou) -- Chapter 8. Who Needed Pylades? (Fantuzzi) -- Part 3. Friendship and the Historian -- Chapter 9. Friendship in Herodotus (Pelling) -- Chapter 10. Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in Herodotus (Mantzouranis) |
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Chapter 11. Friendship in the Relations between the Cities in Thucydides (Konstantinopoulos) -- Chapter 12. Friends in Arms under the Public Gaze (Thliveri) -- Chapter 13. Friendship on Stone: Inscribed Narratives of the Rescue and Ransom of Exiles and Captives (Scafuro) -- Part 4. Friends and Enemies in Court -- Chapter 14. Civic Friendships and Filial Duties: Representations of Political Bonds in Classical Athens (Filonik) -- Chapter 15. Friendship Betrayed: Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402BCE (Rubinstein) |
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Chapter 16. Blood Is (Usually) Thicker Than Water: Kinship and Friendship in Ancient Greek Inheritance Disputes (Griffith-Williams) -- Chapter 17. The Flexibility of the Rhetoric of Friendship in Athenian Courts (Volonaki) -- Chapter 18. Shifting Political Friendships in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes and Philip II (Efstathiou) -- Part 5. Post-classical Friendships -- Chapter 19. The Code 'Help Friends-Harm Enemies' and the Socratic Tradition (Noussia-Fantuzzi) -- Chapter 20. Friendship in Pausanias (Arafat) -- Chapter 21. Philia in Libanius' Letters (Kraus) |
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Part 6. The Afterlife of Ancient philia -- Chapter 22. A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Tom Paulin's Rescuing of Antigone's Afterlife (Kentrotis Zinelis) -- Chapter 23. A Modern Neo-Platonic Friendship (Konstan) -- General Index -- Index of Names |
| Summary |
This edited volume seeks to examine the complex and multi-faceted concept and social phenomenon of friendship by shedding light on the way it is represented in a range of ancient Greek literary, historical, and philosophical sources |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Filonik, Jakub
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Kremmydas, Christos
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Volonaki, Eleni
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| ISBN |
9789004548671 |
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900454867X |
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