books.google.ca - This volume deals with the topics of friendship, flattery, and frankness of speech in the Greco-Roman world. The three topics were often related, with candor of frank criticism viewed as the trait that distinguished the true friend from the flatterer.The book's eleven essays are divided into three parts....http://books.google.ca/books/about/Friendship_Flattery_and_Frankness_of_Spe.html?id=E1GZ5nSDZU0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFriendship, Flattery and Frankness of Speech
