Xenophon

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-02-04
Mått:145 x 223 x 40 mm
Vikt:875 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Antal sidor:624
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199216178

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Vivienne J. Gray is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland.

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[a] fine selection of essays ... offer[s] further insight into his literary skills as well as a good sense of the cultural interest of Xenophon as a historical figure in his own right

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; I. STATUS AND GENDER ; 1. Slavery in the Greek Domestic Economy in the Light of Xenophon's Oeconomicus ; 2. Xenophon's Foreign Wives ; 3. Xenophon on Male Love ; II. DEMOCRACY ; 4. Xenophon's Programme in the Poroi ; 5. Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style ; 6. The Seductions of the Gaze: Socrates and his Girlfriends ; III. SOCRATES ; 7. Xenophon's Socrates as Teacher ; 8. Xenophon's Socrates as Dialectician ; 9. The Dancing Socrates and the Laughing Xenophon, or The Other Symposium ; 10. The Straussian Interpretation of Xenophon: The Paradigmatic Case of Memorabilia IV.4 ; IV. CYROPAEDIA ; 11. The Idea of Imperial Monarchy in Xenophon's Cyropaedia ; 12. Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia ; 13. The Question of the Good Life. The Meeting of Cyrus and Croesus in Xenophon ; 14. Xenophon's Cyropaedia and the Hellenistic Novel ; 15. The death of Cyrus. Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a Source for Iranian History ; V. HISTORICAL WRITING ; 16. The Sources for the Spartan Debacle at Haliartus ; 17. Xenophon's Anabasis ; 18. You can't go home again: Displacement and Identity in Xenophon's Anabasis ; 19. Irony and the Narrator in Xenophon's Anabasis ; 20. Interventions and Citations in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis