Title Helping friends and harming enemies : a study in Sophocles and Greek ethics / Ruby Blondell, University of Washington ; with a foreword by David Konstan, New York University

Edition Second edition Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024 ©2024

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) Series Cambridge classical classics Cambridge classical classics. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Glossary of Greek words -- 1 Introduction -- Tragedy and ethics -- Drama and dialectic -- Ethos and dianoia -- 2 Helping friends and harming enemies -- Helping friends and harming enemies -- Friendship and enmity -- Philoi -- Problems with Help Friends/Harm Enemies -- 3 Ajax -- Ajax and his enemies -- Pleasure and principle -- Ajax and his philoi -- Friendship and deception -- Justice and excellence -- Odysseus, Agamemnon and philia -- 4 Antigone -- Antigone and philia -- Creon Reason and passion -- 5 Electra -- Helping friends and harming enemies -- Electra and Chrysothemis -- Electra and Clytemnestra -- Orestes and vengeance -- Matricide, revenge and justice -- 6 Philoctetes -- Odysseus and Neoptolemus -- Neoptolemus and Philoctetes: deception -- Neoptolemus, Philoctetes, Odysseus -- Neoptolemus and Philoctetes: persuasion -- Heracles -- 7 Oedipus at Colonus -- Oedipus, friendship and enmity -- Creon -- Polyneices -- Theseus -- Oedipus, the gods and justice -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography of Short Titles -- Index Summary "Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. By analysing a fundamental principle of Greek popular ethics, this study challenged that presumption, and remains of vital interest to students, scholars and non-specialists interested in Greek culture and drama"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 07, 2024) Subject Sophocles -- Ethics Didactic drama, Greek -- History and criticism Mythology, Greek, in literature. Ethics, Ancient, in literature. Ethics, Ancient. Ethics -- Greece -- History Ethics in literature. Form Electronic book Author Konstan, David, writer of foreword. LC no. 2024008587 ISBN 9781009465854 1009465856

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