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Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press (edition First Edition), 1997
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- Title
- Friendship in the Classical World (Key Themes in Ancient History) (Volume 0)
- Author
- Konstan, David
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (edition First Edition)
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521459982
- ISBN 13
- 9780521459983
- Edition
- First Edition.
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.
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Review
"...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
"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
"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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