Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature

Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael J. Edwards
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54633-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 474, 470 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Efstathiou, Athanasios

Filonik, Jakub

Kremmydas, Christos

Volonaki, Eleni

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Exploring philia in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature

Christos Kremmydas

Part 1 The Poetics of Friendship

1 Three Friendships

Michael J. Edwards

2 Philia and the Poetics of Tragedy

Chris Carey

3 Absent Friends: Why Is Friendship Less Important in Tragedy Than in the Iliad?

G.O. Hutchinson

4 A Gift-Song to an Old Friend: Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian

Lucia Athanassaki

5 Charis and Charites in Callimachus: Friendship in a Hostile World

Flora P. Manakidou

Part 2 Dramatic Friendships

6 Philia in Euripidean Tragedy

Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou

7 Antigone’s “Nearest and Dearest”: Metapoetry in Euripides’ Antigone and Phoenissae

Ioanna Karamanou

8 Who Needed Pylades?

Marco Fantuzzi

Part 3 Friendship and the Historian

9 Friendship in Herodotus

Christopher Pelling

10 Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in Herodotus

Kleanthis Mantzouranis

11 Friendship in the Relations between the Cities in Thucydides

Vasileios L. Konstantinopoulos

12 Friends in Arms under the Public Gaze

Hara Thliveri

13 Friendship on Stone: Inscribed Narratives of the Rescue and Ransom of Exiles and Captives

Adele Scafuro

Part 4 Friends and Enemies in Court

14 Civic Friendships and Filial Duties: Representations of Political Bonds in Classical Athens

Jakub Filonik

15 Friendship Betrayed: Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402?BCE

Lene Rubinstein

16 Blood Is (Usually) Thicker Than Water: Kinship and Friendship in Ancient Greek Inheritance Disputes

Brenda Griffith-Williams

17 The Flexibility of the Rhetoric of Friendship in Athenian Courts

Eleni Volonaki

18 Shifting Political Friendships in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes and Philip II

Athanasios Efstathiou

Part 5 Post-classical Friendships

19 The Code “Help Friends—Harm Enemies” and the Socratic Tradition

Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi

20 Friendship in Pausanias

K.W. Arafat

21 Philia in Libanius’ Letters

Manfred Kraus

Part 6 The Afterlife of Ancient philia

22 A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Tom Paulin’s Rescuing of Antigone’s Afterlife

Dimitris Kentrotis Zinelis

23 A Modern Neo-Platonic Friendship

David Konstan

General Index

Names Index

Über Autor(innen)

Athanasios Efstathiou (PhD 2000, RHUL) is Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Ionian University. He has published widely on Greek rhetoric, oratory, history, historiography, and law.

Jakub Filonik (PhD 2015, Warsaw) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia, in Katowice. He has published on Athenian oratory, Greek law, political metaphors, and liberty ancient and modern; he has co-edited The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory (Routledge 2020).

Christos Kremmydas (PhD 2005, RHUL) is Head of the Classics Department and Reader in Ancient Greek History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published widely on Greek rhetoric, oratory, and law, including the Commentary on Demosthenes Against Leptines (Oxford 2012).

Eleni Volonaki (PhD 1998, RHUL) is a Tenured Assistant Professor of Greek Literature in the Faculty of Philology, University of the Peloponnese. She has written on Greek rhetoric and oratory, reception in antiquity, Attic law, and drama; she has organised several international conferences.