Author : Athanasios Efstathiou
Publisher : Brill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9789004546332
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 :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 900454867X
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 : Marina McCoy
Publisher :
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199672784
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 : David Konstan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 1997-02-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521459983
An examination of the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome from Homer to the Christian Roman Empire of fourth century AD.
Author : David Konstan
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 019992726X
What makes something beautiful? In this engaging, elegant study, David Konstan turns to ancient Greece to address the nature of beauty.
Author : John M. Dillon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 9780253345264
Explores the social and familial relations of the ancient Greeks.
Author : Eva Österberg
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2010-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 6155211795
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 : Adriel M. Trott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1107036259
Adriel M. Trott reads Aristotle's Politics through the internal cause definition of nature to develop an active and inclusive account of politics.
Author : William Wians
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438474903
In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward progression from mythology to rationality. These volumes, however, demonstrate the value of taking the two together, opening up and analyzing a range of interactions, reactions, tensions, and ambiguities arising between literary and philosophical forms of discourse, including philosophical themes in works not ordinarily considered in the canon of Greek philosophical texts. This new volume considers such topics as the pre-philosophical origins of Anaximander's calendar, the philosophical significance of public performance and claims of poetic inspiration, and the complex role of mythic figures (including perhaps Socrates) in Plato. Taken together, the essays offer new approaches to familiar texts and open up new possibilities for understanding the roles and relationships between muthos and logos in ancient Greek thought.
Author : Lars Hermanson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9004401210
In this book, Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking affected social identity and political behaviour. With examples taken from eleventh- and twelfth-century northern Europe, the author investigates why friendship was praised both by brotherhoods of aristocratic warriors and by brethren within monastery walls. Social and political functions rested on personal connections rather than a strong central state in the High Middle Ages. This meant that friendship was an important pragmatic instrument for establishing social order and achieving success in the game of politics.
