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.

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List of Figures

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Notes on Contributors



Introduction: Exploring philia in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature

 Christos Kremmydas



Part 1 The Poetics of Friendship



1 Three Friendships

 Michael J. Edwards



2 Philia and the Poetics of Tragedy

 Chris Carey



3 Absent Friends: Why Is Friendship Less Important in Tragedy Than in the Iliad?

 G.O. Hutchinson



4 A Gift-Song to an Old Friend: Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian

 Lucia Athanassaki



5 Charis and Charites in Callimachus: Friendship in a Hostile World

 Flora P. Manakidou



Part 2 Dramatic Friendships



6 Philia in Euripidean Tragedy

 Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou



7 Antigone’s “Nearest and Dearest”: Metapoetry in Euripides’ Antigone and Phoenissae

 Ioanna Karamanou



8 Who Needed Pylades?

 Marco Fantuzzi



Part 3 Friendship and the Historian



9 Friendship in Herodotus

 Christopher Pelling



10 Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in Herodotus

 Kleanthis Mantzouranis



11 Friendship in the Relations between the Cities in Thucydides

 Vasileios L. Konstantinopoulos



12 Friends in Arms under the Public Gaze

 Hara Thliveri



13 Friendship on Stone: Inscribed Narratives of the Rescue and Ransom of Exiles and Captives

 Adele Scafuro



Part 4 Friends and Enemies in Court



14 Civic Friendships and Filial Duties: Representations of Political Bonds in Classical Athens

 Jakub Filonik



15 Friendship Betrayed: Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402 BCE

 Lene Rubinstein



16 Blood Is (Usually) Thicker Than Water: Kinship and Friendship in Ancient Greek Inheritance Disputes

 Brenda Griffith-Williams



17 The Flexibility of the Rhetoric of Friendship in Athenian Courts

 Eleni Volonaki



18 Shifting Political Friendships in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes and Philip II

 Athanasios Efstathiou



Part 5 Post-classical Friendships



19 The Code “Help Friends—Harm Enemies” and the Socratic Tradition

 Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi



20 Friendship in Pausanias

 K.W. Arafat



21 Philia in Libanius’ Letters

 Manfred Kraus



Part 6 The Afterlife of Ancient philia



22 A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Tom Paulin’s Rescuing of Antigone’s Afterlife

 Dimitris Kentrotis Zinelis



23 A Modern Neo-Platonic Friendship

 David Konstan



General Index

Names Index