Friendship
11 books featuring this theme
Friendship is elective solidarity grounded in loyalty and mutual aid. It mediates between kinship and polity and tests virtue under stress.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni
1200-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Ramayana
Valmiki
300-100 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory
1469-1485 CE
Germanic, English
Panchatantra
Vishnu Sharma
300-500 CE
Indian, Hindu
Heracles
Euripides
416 BCE
Greek
Y Gododdin
Aneirin
600-1200 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Alcestis
Euripides
438 BCE
Greek
Philoctetes
Sophocles
409 BCE
Greek
Gilgamesh and Huwawa
Anonymous
2000-1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
The Myth of Etana
Anonymous
1800-1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Krákumál
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Germanic, Norse