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Batstone 1993: 143-50 on the rhetorical presentation of self in classical lyric poetry. 110 on Thu May 20 13:44:39 BST 2010. 001 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2010 18 Introduction answering: Because it was he, because it was I" ("Of Friendship," in Pakaluk 1991: 192). 24 Many writers have perceived a decline in the quality of friendship in modern society as a consequence of alienation and the commodification of personal relations; Stuart Miller (1983: 20-6) lists the market economy, Protestantism, philosophical monadism, individualism, technology, rationalism, professionalism, and mobility as "all tending to destroy intimacy" (26).
How and why a special vocabulary for friendships between strangers emerged is obscure (H. Kakridis 1963: 100—1 suggests that friends who met through hospitality kept the name of stranger). Much has been claimed for the importance of the institution of xenia in archaic society, but while it may occasionally have facilitated travel in a rough world innocent of international law, the Homeric epics give no evidence that such a function was primary: no one selects a destination on the grounds that he has a xenos there.
Modern friendship 17 nion are dimensions of a sense of self that is characteristic of a contemporary sensibility. William Sadler (1970: 201) writes that when we sense that a friend really understands us and truly communicates with us, then we know that cynicism and despair are unnecessary because loneliness is not revelatory of the ultimate character of human life.. When interpreted from within the perspective of love, the experience of loneliness is transformed into an awareness of our singular identity.