This book is a history of friendship in Greece and Rome, from the warrior society of the Homeric epics to the time of the Christian Roman Empire. It demonstrates how ancient friendship resembles modern conceptions, and how it evolves in different social contexts. The book sheds new light on such questions as friendship and democracy, the importance of friends in government and in philosophical communities, women's friendships, and the transformation of friendship under the influence of Christian ideas of brotherhood.
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"...this is a valuable study of interest to such diverse groups as the ancient historian, the moral theologian or the philosopher with an interest in the virtues." Alicia Batten, Toronto Journal of Theology
"Konstan's account will serve well anyone who wants to learn more about the classical thinkers who gave us our language and our understanding of friendship, or who wants to contemplate what we have made of that inheritance." Gilbert Meilaender, First Things
"Konstan's account will serve well anyone who wants to learn more about the classical thinkers who gave us our language and our understanding of friendship, or who wants to contemplate what we have made of that inheritance." Gilbert Meilaender, First Things
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This book is a history of friendship in Greece and Rome, from the warrior society of the Homeric epics to the time of the Christian Roman Empire. It demonstrates how ancient friendship resembles modern conceptions, and how it evolves in different social contexts. The book sheds new light on such questions as friendship and democracy, the importance of friends in government and in philosophic communities, women's friendships, and the transformation of friendship under the influence of Christian ideas of brotherhood.
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As the oldest evidence for the history of friendship in the classical world, the two epic poems attributed to Homer present a paradox. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noun philos, verb philein, term philos, modern friendship, ancient friendship, alternate numbers, political friendship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maximus of Tyre, Gregory of Nazianzus, Alexander the Great, Dio Chrysostom, John Chrysostom, Paul Millett, Van Dam, Gabriel Herman, Diogenes Laertius, Mark Antony, New Testament, Valerius Maximus, Walter Donlan New!
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As the oldest evidence for the history of friendship in the classical world, the two epic poems attributed to Homer present a paradox. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noun philos, verb philein, term philos, modern friendship, ancient friendship, alternate numbers, political friendship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Maximus of Tyre, Gregory of Nazianzus, Alexander the Great, Dio Chrysostom, John Chrysostom, Paul Millett, Van Dam, Gabriel Herman, Diogenes Laertius, Mark Antony, New Testament, Valerius Maximus, Walter Donlan New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 5 pages
- The Art of Love by Ovid on page 146, and page 155
- The World of Odysseus (New York Review Books Classics) by M.I. Finley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) by Sir Thomas Malory on page 108, and page 146
- Greece and Rome (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Joan R. Mertens in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship by Lorraine Smith Pangle on 4 pages
- Service and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays by Judith Weil on 4 pages
- Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage) by Tomas Hägg on 4 pages
- Ennobling Love: In Search of a Lost Sensibility (The Middle Ages Series) by C. Stephen Jaeger in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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