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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.
List of contents
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
