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Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 900454867X

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.

Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature

Author: Athanasios Efstathiou

Publisher: Brill

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004546332

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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.

Friendship in the Classical World

Author: David Konstan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-02-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780521459983

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An examination of the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome from Homer to the Christian Roman Empire of fourth century AD.

Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship

Author: Suzanne Stern-Gillet

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1438453663

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Focusing on Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics and Epicureans, and early Christian and Medieval sources, Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship brings together assessments of different philosophical accounts of friendship. This volume sketches the evolution of the concept from ancient ideals of friendship applying strictly to relationships between men of high social position to Christian concepts that treat friendship as applicable to all but are concerned chiefly with the soul's relation to God—and that ascribe a secondary status to human relationships. The book concludes with two essays examining how this complex heritage was received during the Enlightenment, looking in particular to Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Hölderlin.

Wounded Heroes

Author: Marina Berzins McCoy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-09-26

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0199672784

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McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy offer important insights into the nature of human vulnerability, especially how Greek thought extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.

Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000-1200

Author: Lars Hermanson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9004401210

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In this book Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking also affected people’s social identity and political action behaviour in medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000-1200.

Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle

Author: A. W. Price

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1989-01-26

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0191586617

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This book fully explores for the first time an idea common to Plato and Aristotle, which unites their treatments - otherwise very different - of love and friendship. The idea is that although persons are separate, their lives need not be. One person's life may overflow into another's, and as such, helping another person is a way of serving oneself. The author shows how their view of love and friendship, within not only personal relationships, but also the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism. - ;Friendship and desire in the Lysis; Love in the Symposium; Love in the Phaedrus; Perfect friendship in Aristotle; Aristotle on the varieties of friendship; The household; The City; Epilogue; Appendices; Homogeneity and beauty in the Symposium; Psychoanalysis looks at the Phaedrus ; Plato's sexual morality; Aristotle on erotic love; List of modern works cited. -

Friendship and Love, Ethics and Politics

Author: Eva Österberg

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2010-01-10

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 6155211795

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Today, friendship, love and sexuality are mostly viewed as private, personal and informal relations. In the mediaeval and early modern period, just like in ancient times, this was different. The classical philosophy of friendship (Aristotle) included both friendship and love in the concept of philia. It was also linked to an argument about the virtues needed to become an excellent member of the city state. Thus, close relations were not only thought to be a matter of pleasant gatherings in privacy, but just as much a matter of ethics and politics.What, then, happened to the classical ideas of close relations when they were transmitted to philosophers, clerical and monastic thinkers, state officials or other people in the medieval and early modern period? To what extent did friendship transcend the distinctions between private and public that then existed? How were close relations shaped in practice? Did dialogues with close friends help to contribute to the process of subject-formation in the Renaissance and Enlightenment? To what degree did institutions of power or individual thinkers find it necessary to caution against friendship or love and sexuality?

Aristotle's Philosophy of Friendship

Author: Suzanne Stern-Gillet

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1995-03-30

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781438421193

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Presents the major issues in Aristotle's writings on Friendship.

Aristotle on Friendship

Author: Geoffrey Percival

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 110749771X

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Originally published in 1940, this book contains an expanded English translation of Books 8 and 9 of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. These two books are devoted to a discussion on the nature of friendship and the role it played in Greek life, and Percival supplies an introduction with a background to the subject of ancient friendship prior to Aristotle's formulation. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient friendship or the philosophy of Aristotle.