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Nicholas Cross, CUNY Graduate Center

**Philia and Constructing Interstate Alliances in Xenophon

 

Galina Krasskova, Fordham University

**Pliny the Younger and Suetonius: A Study in the Language of Roman Friendship

 

Matthew Naglak, University of Michigan

**You’ve Got a Friend in Me: The Principles of De Amicitia in Cicero’s Philippics

 

Bart Van Wassenhove, University of Chicago

**Friendship, admonition and moral rhetoric in Seneca’s Consolations 

 

Adrian Brändli, University of Oxford, Lincoln College

**Ambrose of Milan and the limits of Christian friendship

 

Matthew Watton, University of Western Ontario

**Friendship, Pleasure, and Poetry in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura

 

Jan Maximilian Robitzsch, University of Pennsylvania

**Epicurean Friendship

 

Rachel Lesser, University of California, Berkeley

**Understanding Intimacy in the Iliad: A Re-evaluation of the Core Meaning of Philos and Its Derivatives

 

Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi, University of Cambridge

**Sexlessful Lover: A Radical Reappraisal of Diotima’s Speech