Friendship in the Classical World
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Part of Key Themes in Ancient History
- Author: David Konstan, Brown University, Rhode Island
- Date Published: February 1997
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- isbn: 9780521459983
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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 philosophical communities, women's friendships, and the transformation of friendship under the influence of Christian ideas of brotherhood.
Read more- Only study of friendship in Greece and Rome that exists in English
- Author very well known, especially in the USA
- Volume in successful series
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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
See more reviews"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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- Date Published: February 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521459983
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Archaic Greece
2. The classical city
3. The Hellenistic world
4. Rome
5. Christian and pagan
Bibliography
Index.
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