The Economics of Friendship - Conceptions of Reciprocity in Classical Greece

In The Economics of Friendship, Tazuko Angela van Berkel offers an account of emerging social theory on reciprocity, philia and charis in the Greek world of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.

About the author

Tazuko Angela van Berkel is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University. Her 2012 Leiden dissertation was awarded the Legatum Stolpianum. She has published on Protagoras, Xenophon, ancient economic reflection, and the rhetoric of numbers.

Product details

• Authors: Tazuko van Berkel
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2019
• EAN: 9789004416130
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41613-0
• No. of pages: 548
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 240 mm x 35 mm
• Weight: 904 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies