Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon

Cover\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nAcknowledgments\nAbbreviations\nIntroduction\n1 Friendship in Athenian Politics Prior to the Demagogues\n	I. Introduction: Demagogues as Friends\n	II. Balancing Philoi and the Polis\n	III. Pericles and the Bridge to the Demagogues\n	IV. Conclusion\n2 Cleon and the Rise of Friendship-Based Athenian Demagogy\n	I. Introduction: Enter the Demagogue\n	II. Philia and the Polis in the Demagogues’ Rise\n	III. Philia through Common Membership in a Maligned Ingroup: Aristocratic Ridicule Binding Demagogues and the Demos\n	IV. Conclusion: Leadership by Winning over the Demos as Philoi\n3 The Sociology of Making Individual Philoi among the Masses\n	I. Introduction\n	II. The Propinquity Effect in Friendship Development and Athenian Politics\n	III. Demagogues’ Manipulation of the Propinquity Effect\n	IV. The Homophily Effect in Friendship Development and Athenian Politics\n	V. Transitivity, and the Influence of Demagogues on Xenophon\n	VI. The Exchange of Favors in Friendship Development in Knights and Hecuba\n	VII. Conclusion: Cleon as a “Personal” Friend to Lower-Class Athenians\n4 Distinguishing Desire from Friendship in Leadership Models in Aristophanes’ Knights\n	I. Introduction: “Demos, I am Not Your Lover”\n	II. The Language of Pederasty and Philia in Knights\n	III. The Performance of Pederasty and Friendship in Knights\n	IV. Gifts and Favors in Pederasty and Philia in Knights\n	V. Why Pederasty Imagery Might Have Been Tied to Cleon\n	VI. Conclusion\n5 Later Developments of the “Leader as Philos ” Model\n	I. Introduction\n	II. Odysseus in Iphigenia in Aulis\n	III. Dionysus in the Bacchae\n	IV. Xenophon, Clearchus, and Other Military and Political Leaders in Xenophon’s Biographical Works\n	V. Conclusion\nConclusion: Cleon and the Legacy of Leadership by Friendship\nNotes\nWorks Cited\nIndex