Title Page : p. i IOLUS AN ANTHOLOGY OF FRIENDSHIP EDITED BY EDWARD CARPENTER NEW YORK MITCHELL KENNERLEY MCMXVII [1917] Scanned , April 2004. John Bruno Hare, redactor. This text is in the public domain. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.
Iii. Poetry Of Friendship Among Greeks And Romans : p. 61 p. 62 p. 63 III. POETRY OF FRIENDSHIP AMONG GREEKS AND ROMANS THE fact, already mentioned, that the romance of love among the Greeks was chiefly felt towards male friends, naturally led to their poetry being largely inspired by friendship; and Greek literature contains such a great number...
I. Friendship Customs In The Pagan And Early World : p. 1 p. 2 p. 3 I FRIENDSHIP-CUSTOMS IN THE PAGAN AND EARLY WORLD FRIENDSHIP-CUSTOMS, of a very marked and definite character, have apparently prevailed among a great many primitive peoples; but the information that we have about them is seldom thoroughly satisfactory. Travellers have been content...
V. The Renaissance And Modern Times : p. 111 p. 112 p. 113 V THE RENAISSANCE AND MODERN TIMES WITH the Renaissance, and the impetus it gave at that time to the study of Greek and Roman models, the exclusive domination of Christianity and the Church was broken. A literature of friendship along classic lines began to spring up...
Ii. The Place Of Friendship In Greek Life : p. 35 p. 36 p. 37 II THE PLACE OF FRIENDSHIP IN GREEK LIFE AND THOUGHT THE extent to which the idea of friendship (in a quite romantic sense) penetrated the Greek mind is a thing very difficult for us to realize; and some modern critics entirely miss this point. They laud the Greek culture...
Iv. Friendship In Early Christian And Mediaeval : p. 87 p. 88 p. 89 IV FRIENDSHIP IN EARLY CHRISTIAN AND MEDIVAL TIMES THE quotations we have given from Plato and others show the very high ideal of friendship which obtained in the old world, and the respect accorded to it. With the incoming of the Christian centuries, and the growth...
Preface To First Edition : p. v PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION THE degree to which Friendship, in the early history of the world, has been recognized as an institution, and the dignity ascribed to it, are things hardly realized to-day. Yet a very slight examination of the subject shows the important part it has played. In making...
Untitled : IOLUS An Anthology Of Friendship BY EDWARD CARPENTER [1917] This is Edward Carpenter's study of (primarily male) friendship, which in this case is a thinly veiled codeword for 'homosexuality'. In earlier cultures, particularly classical antiquity, but up to and including Elizabethan times, intense...
