Friendship’ and ‘Self-Sufficiency’ in Homer and Aristotle

Bibliographic Data

ID9664263
AuthorsA W H Adkins (Phillips Exeter Academy, corresponding author)
Year1963
Volume13
Issue1
Pages30-45
Publication date1963-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0009838800001579
OpenAlexW2133684056
LanguageEN
Citations received46
References cited1

This article falls into two parts: the first is an analysis, in the light of my earlier discussions of and of the Homeric usage of and the second, an attempt to show that, as in the case of the effects of Homeric usage persist to a considerable degree in the moral philosophy of Aristotle. In the earlier discussions I have argued that the higher value placed upon the competitive in Greek entails that co-operative relationships, even when valued and necessary, take the form dictated by the more valued qualities, the The most general words to denote co-operative relationships in Greek are and its derivatives: my purpose here is to show how the Homeric usage of these words is related to the Homeric standard and to Homeric society, and to sketch in the outline of a wider discussion, which I hope to be able to fill in later

Ancient Greek · Art · Friendship · Literature · Sketch · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics · Classical Philosophy and Thought · History · Mathematics · Philosophy