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

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. ‎Contents 6 ‎Preface 10 ‎Figures 11 ‎Abbreviations 12 ‎Notes on Contributors 13 ‎Introduction. Exploring Philia in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature (Kremmydas) 16 ‎Part 1. The Poetics of Friendship 44 ‎Chapter 1. Three Friendships (Edwards) 46 ‎Chapter 2. Philia and the Poetics of Tragedy (Carey) 59 ‎Chapter 3. Absent Friends: Why Is Friendship Less Important in Tragedy Than in the Iliad? (Hutchinson) 71 ‎Chapter 4. A Gift-Song to an Old Friend: Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian (Athanassaki) 90 ‎Chapter 5. Charis and Charites in Callimachus: Friendship in a Hostile World (Manakidou) 109 ‎Part 2. Dramatic Friendships 128 ‎Chapter 6. Philia in Euripidean Tragedy (Xanthaki-Karamanou) 130 ‎Chapter 7. Antigone’s ‘Nearest and Dearest’: Metapoetry in Euripides’ Antigone and Phoenissae (Karamanou) 141 ‎Chapter 8. Who Needed Pylades? (Fantuzzi) 153 ‎Part 3. Friendship and the Historian 168 ‎Chapter 9. Friendship in Herodotus (Pelling) 170 ‎Chapter 10. Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in Herodotus (Mantzouranis) 192 ‎Chapter 11. Friendship in the Relations between the Cities in Thucydides (Konstantinopoulos) 211 ‎Chapter 12. Friends in Arms under the Public Gaze (Thliveri) 227 ‎Chapter 13. Friendship on Stone: Inscribed Narratives of the Rescue and Ransom of Exiles and Captives (Scafuro) 250 ‎Part 4. Friends and Enemies in Court 280 ‎Chapter 14. Civic Friendships and Filial Duties: Representations of Political Bonds in Classical Athens (Filonik) 282 ‎Chapter 15. Friendship Betrayed: Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402BCE (Rubinstein) 297 ‎Chapter 16. Blood Is (Usually) Thicker Than Water: Kinship and Friendship in Ancient Greek Inheritance Disputes (Griffith-Williams) 321 ‎Chapter 17. The Flexibility of the Rhetoric of Friendship in Athenian Courts (Volonaki) 345 ‎Chapter 18. Shifting Political Friendships in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes and Philip II (Efstathiou) 373 ‎Part 5. Post-classical Friendships 390 ‎Chapter 19. The Code ‘Help Friends—Harm Enemies’ and the Socratic Tradition (Noussia-Fantuzzi) 392 ‎Chapter 20. Friendship in Pausanias (Arafat) 412 ‎Chapter 21. Philia in Libanius’ Letters (Kraus) 427 ‎Part 6. The Afterlife of Ancient philia 442 ‎Chapter 22. A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Tom Paulin’s Rescuing of Antigone’s Afterlife (Kentrotis Zinelis) 444 ‎Chapter 23. A Modern Neo-Platonic Friendship (Konstan) 464 ‎General Index 478 ‎Index of Names 482 "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