Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature

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.

• PrefaceList of FiguresAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Exploring philia in Ancient Greek Thought and LiteratureChristos KremmydasPart 1 The Poetics of Friendship1 Three FriendshipsMichael J. Edwards2 Philia and the Poetics of TragedyChris Carey3 Absent Friends: Why Is Friendship Less Important in Tragedy Than in the Iliad?G.O. Hutchinson4 A Gift-Song to an Old Friend: Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second IsthmianLucia Athanassaki5 Charis and Charites in Callimachus: Friendship in a Hostile WorldFlora P. ManakidouPart 2 Dramatic Friendships6 Philia in Euripidean TragedyGeorgia Xanthaki-Karamanou7 Antigone’s “Nearest and Dearest”: Metapoetry in Euripides’ Antigone and PhoenissaeIoanna Karamanou8 Who Needed Pylades?Marco FantuzziPart 3 Friendship and the Historian9 Friendship in HerodotusChristopher Pelling10 Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in HerodotusKleanthis Mantzouranis11 Friendship in the Relations between the Cities in ThucydidesVasileios L. Konstantinopoulos12 Friends in Arms under the Public GazeHara Thliveri13 Friendship on Stone: Inscribed Narratives of the Rescue and Ransom of Exiles and CaptivesAdele ScafuroPart 4 Friends and Enemies in Court14 Civic Friendships and Filial Duties: Representations of Political Bonds in Classical AthensJakub Filonik15 Friendship Betrayed: Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402 BCELene Rubinstein16 Blood Is (Usually) Thicker Than Water: Kinship and Friendship in Ancient Greek Inheritance DisputesBrenda Griffith-Williams17 The Flexibility of the Rhetoric of Friendship in Athenian CourtsEleni Volonaki18 Shifting Political Friendships in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes and Philip IIAthanasios EfstathiouPart 5 Post-classical Friendships19 The Code “Help Friends—Harm Enemies” and the Socratic TraditionMaria Noussia-Fantuzzi20 Friendship in PausaniasK.W. Arafat21 Philia in Libanius’ LettersManfred KrausPart 6 The Afterlife of Ancient philia22 A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Tom Paulin’s Rescuing of Antigone’s AfterlifeDimitris Kentrotis Zinelis23 A Modern Neo-Platonic FriendshipDavid KonstanGeneral IndexNames Index