Xenophon's mirror of princes : reading the reflections
Gray, VivienneAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
This title is a study of images of leadership in Xenophon's narrative works. Gray argues that Xenophon employs techniques such as the creation of patterned narratives, as well as allusions to Homer and Herodotus.
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This title is a study of images of leadership in Xenophon's narrative works. Gray argues that Xenophon employs techniques such as the creation of patterned narratives, as well as allusions to Homer and Herodotus.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mirror of princes or flaws in the glass? : general remarks -- Explicit authorial evaluations in historical writing -- Xenophon's adaptations of his literary predecessors : Homer, Herodotus, and others -- Xenophon's patterned narratives of leadership -- Readings of Cyropaedia -- The dynamics of friendship -- Xenophon's Socratic and other ironies.
Xenophon
Leadership in literature
Greek literature
Languages & Literatures
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures