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Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature
Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael J. Edwards
Series: - Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 474
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.
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.
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.
Preface
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Exploring philia in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature
âChristos Kremmydas
1 Three Friendships
âMichael J. Edwards
2 Philia and the Poetics of Tragedy
âChris Carey
3 Absent Friends: Why Is Friendship Less Important in Tragedy Than in the Iliad?
âG.O. Hutchinson
4 A Gift-Song to an Old Friend: Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian
âLucia Athanassaki
5 Charis and Charites in Callimachus: Friendship in a Hostile World
âFlora P. Manakidou
6 Philia in Euripidean Tragedy
âGeorgia Xanthaki-Karamanou
7 Antigoneâs âNearest and Dearestâ: Metapoetry in Euripidesâ Antigone and Phoenissae
âIoanna Karamanou
8 Who Needed Pylades?
âMarco Fantuzzi
9 Friendship in Herodotus
âChristopher Pelling
10 Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in Herodotus
âKleanthis Mantzouranis
11 Friendship in the Relations between the Cities in Thucydides
âVasileios L. Konstantinopoulos
12 Friends in Arms under the Public Gaze
âHara Thliveri
13 Friendship on Stone: Inscribed Narratives of the Rescue and Ransom of Exiles and Captives
âAdele Scafuro
14 Civic Friendships and Filial Duties: Representations of Political Bonds in Classical Athens
âJakub Filonik
15 Friendship Betrayed: Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402â¯BCE
âLene Rubinstein
16 Blood Is (Usually) Thicker Than Water: Kinship and Friendship in Ancient Greek Inheritance Disputes
âBrenda Griffith-Williams
17 The Flexibility of the Rhetoric of Friendship in Athenian Courts
âEleni Volonaki
18 Shifting Political Friendships in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes and Philip II
âAthanasios Efstathiou
19 The Code âHelp FriendsâHarm Enemiesâ and the Socratic Tradition
âMaria Noussia-Fantuzzi
20 Friendship in Pausanias
âK.W. Arafat
21 Philia in Libaniusâ Letters
âManfred Kraus
22 A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Tom Paulinâs Rescuing of Antigoneâs Afterlife
âDimitris Kentrotis Zinelis
23 A Modern Neo-Platonic Friendship
âDavid Konstan
General Index
Names Index
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Exploring philia in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature
âChristos Kremmydas
Part 1 The Poetics of Friendship
1 Three Friendships
âMichael J. Edwards
2 Philia and the Poetics of Tragedy
âChris Carey
3 Absent Friends: Why Is Friendship Less Important in Tragedy Than in the Iliad?
âG.O. Hutchinson
4 A Gift-Song to an Old Friend: Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian
âLucia Athanassaki
5 Charis and Charites in Callimachus: Friendship in a Hostile World
âFlora P. Manakidou
Part 2 Dramatic Friendships
6 Philia in Euripidean Tragedy
âGeorgia Xanthaki-Karamanou
7 Antigoneâs âNearest and Dearestâ: Metapoetry in Euripidesâ Antigone and Phoenissae
âIoanna Karamanou
8 Who Needed Pylades?
âMarco Fantuzzi
Part 3 Friendship and the Historian
9 Friendship in Herodotus
âChristopher Pelling
10 Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in Herodotus
âKleanthis Mantzouranis
11 Friendship in the Relations between the Cities in Thucydides
âVasileios L. Konstantinopoulos
12 Friends in Arms under the Public Gaze
âHara Thliveri
13 Friendship on Stone: Inscribed Narratives of the Rescue and Ransom of Exiles and Captives
âAdele Scafuro
Part 4 Friends and Enemies in Court
14 Civic Friendships and Filial Duties: Representations of Political Bonds in Classical Athens
âJakub Filonik
15 Friendship Betrayed: Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402â¯BCE
âLene Rubinstein
16 Blood Is (Usually) Thicker Than Water: Kinship and Friendship in Ancient Greek Inheritance Disputes
âBrenda Griffith-Williams
17 The Flexibility of the Rhetoric of Friendship in Athenian Courts
âEleni Volonaki
18 Shifting Political Friendships in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes and Philip II
âAthanasios Efstathiou
Part 5 Post-classical Friendships
19 The Code âHelp FriendsâHarm Enemiesâ and the Socratic Tradition
âMaria Noussia-Fantuzzi
20 Friendship in Pausanias
âK.W. Arafat
21 Philia in Libaniusâ Letters
âManfred Kraus
Part 6 The Afterlife of Ancient philia
22 A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Tom Paulinâs Rescuing of Antigoneâs Afterlife
âDimitris Kentrotis Zinelis
23 A Modern Neo-Platonic Friendship
âDavid Konstan
General Index
Names Index
Scholars and students of ancient Greek literature, history, society, thought, and culture: intellectual and cultural historians; philosophers.