This book explores the ways in which Friendship was performed by Romans through readings of a wide range of literary texts - poems, novels and philosophical writings, letters both by emperors and by soldiers and commemorations on epitaphs commissioned by men, women, citizens and slaves.
A richly varied and perhaps surprising picture emerges..
This book explores the ways in which Friendship was performed by Romans through readings of a wide range of literary texts - poems, novels and philosophical writings, letters both by emperors and by soldiers and commemorations on epitaphs commissioned by men, women, citizens and slaves