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Author : Noreen Humble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479974
Challenges the long-held view that Xenophon is pro-Spartan, arguing that his stance is, rather, critical and philosophical.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521588596
Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On Tyranny) and the Constitution of the Spartans. The third, the Constitution of the Athenians, is found under Xenophon's name alongside the other two in the manuscripts. The works represent three distinct types of government (the rule of one man in tyranny and kingship, the rule of law in the mixed constitution of the Spartans, and the rule of the masses in the Athenian democracy), but there are common features throughout. This volume presents an introduction discussing Xenophon's views on government in the context of his general political thought, drawing particularly on his Socratic work Memorabilia, and a commentary on the Greek text of each work aimed primarily at advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
Author : William Edward Higgins
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 087395369X
This book is a fresh study of the fourth century B.C. Greek adventurer, writer, and student of Socrates, Xenophon. An innovating author of many guises, an important source for the history of his time, a wit and a philosopher, he no longer enjoys the reputation he once did. Suggesting that such a radical de-valuation is more a reflection on nineteenth- and twentieth-century attitudes and scholarship than on the worth of Xenophon, the author in this book attempts to reassert Xenophon's rightful position by offering a close, literary-historical reading of all of Xenophon's writings and by focusing in this process on the alluring reticence and ironic subtlety many have often failed to appreciate before offering what turn out to be their too hasty criticisms. It is hoped that this study will help to bring about the realization that Xenophon, when properly read and read without preconceptions, may yet prove an invaluable guide to the development of Greek thought in general and the world of fourth-century Greece in particular. Xenophon emerges as one of the last great representatives of that civilization which reached its height in Athens, and it is in this context that he is best understood, not, as so often previously, against the Peloponnesian and especially Spartan background where he had friends and where he spent a long exile.
Author : Anton Powell,Nicolas Richer
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589984
Xenophon has for long, and understandably, enjoyed a privileged position as a reliable source on Sparta. Commander of a grand military expedition of Sparta's devising, and a dependent of Sparta's influential king Agesilaos, Xenophon knew Sparta from the inside, and - as himself an Athenian in exile - was well placed to comment on Sparta's difference. The simplicity of his Greek style has a perfume of honesty. And yet... Recent research has with increasing force called into doubt Xenophon's motives and truthfulness - especially as regards Sparta. Analysis of his Hellenica reveals much evasion and euphemism about Sparta's failings - complicated by occasional outbursts against the iniquity of Spartan imperialism. His euphemistic Constitution of the Lakedaimonians (itself containing such an outburst), and his near-hagiography of the dead Agesilaos, have variously evoked trust and suspicion in historians. This book, by a distinguished team of specialists in Spartan history, is the first of a short series from CPW, approaching Spartan reality by way of close analysis of our main contemporary Greek sources: their access, their biases, the literary structure and the genre of their works.
Author : William E. Higgins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1977-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438406695
This book is a fresh study of the fourth century B.C. Greek adventurer, writer, and student of Socrates, Xenophon. An innovating author of many guises, an important source for the history of his time, a wit and a philosopher, he no longer enjoys the reputation he once did. Suggesting that such a radical de-valuation is more a reflection on nineteenth- and twentieth-century attitudes and scholarship than on the worth of Xenophon, the author in this book attempts to reassert Xenophon's rightful position by offering a close, literary-historical reading of all of Xenophon's writings and by focusing in this process on the alluring reticence and ironic subtlety many have often failed to appreciate before offering what turn out to be their too hasty criticisms. It is hoped that this study will help to bring about the realization that Xenophon, when properly read and read without preconceptions, may yet prove an invaluable guide to the development of Greek thought in general and the world of fourth-century Greece in particular. Xenophon emerges as one of the last great representatives of that civilization which reached its height in Athens, and it is in this context that he is best understood, not, as so often previously, against the Peloponnesian and especially Spartan background where he had friends and where he spent a long exile.
Author : Vincent Azoulay
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 3515083928
These twenty-four papers originated at a conference held in 1999 which was dedicated to Xenophon's writings and to the many areas of Greek life for which he is a major source. The contributions, which also reflect the problems of recreating a life that we have so few facts for, are divided into seven sections which discuss: Xenophon's life; Xenophon and Socrates; Xenophon and the barbarian world; Sparta; religion and politics; Anabasis ; Hellenica . These wide-ranging papers are specialised, often based on a close reading on Xenophon's texts, and not all of the Greek is translated. Eighteen papers, plus the introduction, are in English; the remaining papers are in Italian or German.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501718519
This volume contains new, literal translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings along with interpretive essays on each work: Hiero, or The Skilled Tyrant; Agesilaus; Regime of the Lacedaemonians; Regime of the Athenians; Ways and Means, or On Revenue; The Skilled Cavalry Commander; On Horsemanship; and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs.
Author : Xenophon,George Edward Underhill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Greece
ISBN : PSU:000003745762
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547022398
Xenophon's Hellenica is a Classical Greek ancient storyline separated into seven books that portray Greco-Persian history in the years 411–362 BC. Hellenica is one of the most important primary sources for the History of the Peloponnesian War and the war's aftermath. Many consider this a very personal work, written by Xenophon in retirement on his Spartan estate, intended primarily for circulation among his friends, for people who knew the main protagonists and events, often because they had participated in them. It covers the events in Greece from 411 to 362 BC, and is considered to be the continuation of the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106006899931
Greek text with connecting commentary. Text includes introduction, notes, vocabulary, maps and illustrations.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Greece
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009619339
Author : Michael A. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107050068
Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.
Author : Vivienne Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199216178
Xenophon's many and varied works represent a major source of information about the ancient Greek world: for example, about culture, politics, social life and history in the fourth century BC, Socrates, horses and hunting with dogs, the Athenian economy, and Sparta. However, there has been controversy about how his works should be read. This selection of significant modern critical essays will introduce readers to the wide range of his writing, the debates it has inspired, and the interpretative methodologies that have been used. A specially written Introduction by Vivienne J. Gray offers a survey of Xenophon's works, an account of his life with respect to them, a brief discussion of modern readings, reference to modern scholarship since the original publication of the articles, and a critical summary of their content. Several articles have been translated for the first time from French and German, and all quotations have been translated into English.
Author : Matthew R. Christ
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108495769
Examines how Xenophon instructs his elite readers concerning the values and skills needed to lead the Athenian democracy.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005172849