Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature

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.

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.