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In the Orbit of Love - Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome (Hardcover)
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In the Orbit of Love - Affection in Ancient Greece and Rome (Hardcover)
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This book is about love in the classical world - not erotic passion
but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a
family and very close friends, but which may also extend to include
a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply. David Konstan
begins the book with a discussion of friendship, focusing
particularly on the Greek notion that in friendship the identities
of two friends all but merge into one. The book then turns to the
question of loyalty, and why loyalty seems not to have achieved the
status of a virtue in classical thought, before considering love in
relation to generosity, favors, and gratitude. There follows a
discussion of grief, which is a symptom of the loss of a loved one.
The book concludes with an examination of love as the basis of
civic solidarity. In each case, love is the gravitational center of
the relations under examination. In this, the book departs from the
more usual analysis of these affective ties in terms of
reciprocity, which in one way or another involves an expectation of
return. Seen this way, such relationships seem to have a selfish or
at least self-centered dimension, as distinct from truly
other-regarding attitudes. While it is true that the ancient
sources sometimes describe these relations, including friendship,
as forms of mutual obligation, there is also a counter strand that
emphasizes genuine altruism, and it is this aspect that the book
seeks to bring out. A close look at how love drew into its orbit
the various relations examined in this book sheds light not only on
some central features of ancient habits of thought but also on our
own contemporary notions of love, altruism, and friendship.
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