This book is about love in the classical world -- not erotic passion but the love that binds together intimate members of a family and close friends, but may also include a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply. Among the topics discussed are friendship, loyalty, gratitude, grief, and civic solidarity.

• CONTENTS


• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Chapter 1: Love and Friendship


• Chapter 2: Loyalty: The Missing Virtue


• Chapter 3: Gratitude and Liberality


• Chapter 4: Grief and the Self


• Chapter 5: Love and the State


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University. Among his books are Pity Transformed (2001); The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006); Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010); and Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea (2014). He is a past president of the American Philological Association, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.