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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Friendship as an historical variable -- The anthropological turn -- Friendship and other relations -- Sources and the problem of language -- Overdetermination of friendship -- Ancient vs. modern friendship -- 1 Archaic Greece -- The world of Homer -- Philos -- Hetairos -- Xenos -- Eros -- Therapm -- Patroclus and Achilles -- The world of Hesiod -- Lyric poetry and the symposium -- Sappho and women's friendships -- Iambic and elegiac poetry -- Theognis: friendship and class conflict -- 2 The classical city -- The Greek word for "friend" -- Helping friends -- Friendship and politics -- Aristotle on the kinds of philia -- Aristotle on the grounds of friendship -- Friends and finance -- Allies and foreign friends -- Public and private -- Women as friends -- Friendship in the polis -- 3 The Hellenistic world -- Unequal friends -- Friends at court -- Friends and flatterers -- Frankness and free speech -- Friends and rulers -- Philosophical friendship: Epicureanism -- Friendship and Stoic perfection -- Pythagoreanism and the cult of friendship -- Parables of friendship -- Friendship in the "Great World" -- 4 Rome -- Roman friendship -- Cicero and his friends -- Friendship in politics -- Cicero on friendship -- Friends vs. country -- Status and the question of patronage -- The dinner-party scene -- Great friends -- Patrons and poets -- Friendship between men and women -- Friendship in imperial society -- 5 Christian and pagan -- Self-disclosure and Christian friendship -- Hypocrisy and friendship -- Friendship vs. brotherly love -- Friendship and virtue -- Some Christian views -- Gregory of Nazianzus on friendship -- John Cassian and monastic friendship -- Friendship with God -- Friendship in late antiquity