Xenophon
Subtitle: ethical principles and historical enquiry
By: edited by Fiona Hobden, Christopher Tuplin
Series: Mnemosyne. Supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity -- v.  348
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 791
ISBN-13: 9789004224377; 9789004234192
Subjects: Historiography; Ethics; Criticism and interpretation; History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: 'Staying up late' : Plutarch's reading of Xenophon / Philip Stadter; title: The Renaissance reception of Xenophon's Spartan constitution : preliminary observations / Noreen Humble; title: A delightful retreat : Xenophon and the picturesque / Tim Rood; title: Strauss on Xenophon / David M. Johnson; title: Defending demokratia : Athenian justice and the trial of the Arginusae generals in Xenophon's Hellenica / Dustin Gish; title: Timocrates' mission to Greece-once again / Guido Schepens; title: Defences of Socrates: relative chronology, politics and religion / Michael Stokes; title: Xenophon on Socrates' trial and death / Robin Waterfield; title: Mind the gap : a 'snow lacuna' in Xenophon's Anabasis? / Shane Brennan; title: Historical agency and self-awareness in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis / Sarah Brown Ferrario; title: Spartan 'friendship' and Xenophon's crafting of the Anabasis / Ellen Millender; title: A spectacle of Greekness : panhellenism and the visual in Xenophon's Agesilaus / Rosie Harman.; title: The nature and status of Sophia in the memorabilia / Louis-Andre Dorion; title: Why did Xenophon write the last chapter of the Cynegeticus? / Louis L'Allier; title: Best of the Persians : benevolence, self-interest and the 'ironic' reading of Cyropaedia / Gabriel Danzig; title: Pheraulas is the answer, what was the question? (you cannot be Cyrus) / John Henderson; title: Virtue and leadership in Xenophon : ideal leaders or ideal losers? / Melina Tamiolaki; title: Does pride go before a fall? : Xenophon on arrogant pride / Lisa Irene Hau; title: Xenophon and the Persian kiss / Pierre Pontier; title: The wonder of freedom : Xenophon on slavery / Emily Baragwanath; title: Economic thought and economic fact in the works of Xenophon / Thomas J. Figueira; title: The philosophical background of Xenophon's Poroi / Stefan Schorn; title: Strangers incorporated : outsiders in Xenophon's Poroi / Joseph Jansen.