caa a22 4500 386344558 CHVBK 20180307111806.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0017383500029715 doi S0017383500029715 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0017383500029715 Wilson John R. Shifting and Permanent Philia in Thucydides [Elektronische Daten] [John R. Wilson] As an ethical principle, philia represents a continuum of attachment that extends in a stable system of relationships from the self to one's immediate family and friends and then outwards to one's polis and one's race. Furthermore, shared attachment or philia also involves shared hostility or echthra, which can be as permanent as philia. But already in Sophocles' Ajax the idea of such fixed relationships is seen as old-fashioned and incompatible with practical life. In his pretended transformation from a rigid adherence to the principles of permanent philia and permanent echthra (particularly the latter) to the flexible morality of an ‘organization man', the hero realizes that ‘we must hate our echthros only so far, since he may become our philos again later, and I am only ready to do so much to aid and assist aphilos, since he may not remain a philos forever ' (672-81). Copyright © The Classical Association 1989 Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 36/2(1989-10), 147-151 0017-3835 36:2<147 1989 36 GAR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500029715 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500029715 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Wilson John R. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 36/2(1989-10), 147-151 0017-3835 36:2<147 1989 36 GAR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge