Friendship In Ancient Greek Thought And Literature

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900454867X
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Athanasios Efstathiou
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9789004546332
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature written by Athanasios Efstathiou and published by Brill. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521459983
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friendship in the Classical World written by David Konstan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome from Homer to the Christian Roman Empire of fourth century AD.

Author : Suzanne Stern-Gillet
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438453663
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient and Medieval Concepts of Friendship written by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Marina Berzins McCoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199672784
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wounded Heroes written by Marina Berzins McCoy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lars Hermanson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004401210
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000-1200 written by Lars Hermanson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : A. W. Price
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191586617
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle written by A. W. Price and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1989-01-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. -

Author : Suzanne Stern-Gillet
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438421193
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle's Philosophy of Friendship written by Suzanne Stern-Gillet and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the major issues in Aristotle's writings on Friendship.

Author : Eva Österberg
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211795
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friendship and Love, Ethics and Politics written by Eva Österberg and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Author : Geoffrey Percival
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110749771X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on Friendship written by Geoffrey Percival and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.