Xenophon : ethical principles and historical enquiry /

Xenophon : ethical principles and historical enquiry /

Xenophon's personal history was exceptional for its combination of Socratic education and the exercise of military leadership in a time of crisis. His writings provide an intellectually and morally consistent response to his times and to the issue of ethical but effective leadership, and they p...

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Other Authors: Hobden, Fiona., Tuplin, Christopher.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 348.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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Xenophon > Criticism and interpretation.
Xenophon > Ethics.
Historiography > Moral and ethical aspects > History > Greece > To 1500.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
Greece > History > Historiography. > To 146 B.C.

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Call Number: PA4497 .X47 2012eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Fiona Hobden and Christopher Tuplin
  • Introduction /
  • Fiona Hobden and Christopher Tuplin
  • 'Staying Up Late': Plutarch's Reading of Xenophon /
  • Philip Stadter
  • The Renaissance Reception of Xenophon's Spartan Constitution: Preliminary Observations /
  • Noreen Humble
  • A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque /
  • Tim Rood
  • Strauss on Xenophon /
  • David M. Johnson
  • Defending dēmokratia: Athenian Justice and the Trial of the Arginusae Generals in Xenophon's Hellenica /
  • Dustin Gish
  • Timocrates' Mission to Greece-Once Again /
  • Guido Schepens
  • Three Defences of Socrates: Relative Chronology, Politics and Religion /
  • † Michael Stokes
  • Xenophon on Socrates' Trial and Death /
  • Robin Waterfield
  • Mind the Gap: A 'Snow Lacuna' in Xenophon's Anabasis? /
  • Shane Brennan
  • Historical Agency and Self-Awareness in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis /
  • Sarah Brown Ferrario
  • Spartan 'Friendship' and Xenophon's Crafting of the Anabasis /
  • Ellen Millender
  • A Spectacle of Greekness: Panhellenism and the Visual in Xenophon's Agesilaus /
  • Rosie Harman
  • The Nature and Status of sophia in the Memorabilia /
  • Louis-André Dorion
  • Why Did Xenophon Write the Last Chapter of the Cynegeticus? /
  • Louis L'Allier
  • The Best of the Achaemenids: Benevolence, Self-Interest and the 'Ironic' Reading of Cyropaedia /
  • Gabriel Danzig
  • Pheraulas Is the Answer, What Was the Question? (You Cannot Be Cyrus) /
  • John Henderson
  • Virtue and Leadership in Xenophon: Ideal Leaders or Ideal Losers? /
  • Melina Tamiolaki
  • Does Pride Go before a Fall? Xenophon on Arrogant Pride /
  • Lisa Irene Hau
  • Xenophon and the Persian Kiss /
  • Pierre Pontier
  • The Wonder of Freedom: Xenophon on Slavery /
  • Emily Baragwanath
  • Economic Thought and Economic Fact in the Works of Xenophon /
  • Thomas J. Figueira
  • The Philosophical Background of Xenophon's Poroi /
  • Stefan Schorn
  • Strangers Incorporated: Outsiders in Xenophon's Poroi /
  • Joseph Jansen
  • Index of Names /
  • Fiona Hobden and Christopher Tuplin
  • Thematic Index /
  • Fiona Hobden and Christopher Tuplin.