Xenophon : ethical principles and historical enquiry / edited by Fiona Hobden, Christopher Tuplin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hobden, Fiona.

Tuplin, Christopher.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 348.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity

Mnemosyne. Supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 0169-8958 ; v. 348

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xenophon--Criticism and interpretation.

Xenophon.

Xenophon--Ethics.

Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects.

History.

Historiography.

Ethics.

Criticism and interpretation.

Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Historiography.

Greece.

Historiography--Moral and ethical aspects--Greece--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

x, 791 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

An eponymous conference held at the U. of Liverpool, UK (July 2009) was an opportunity for participants to engage with around 50 pre-circulated papers for a couple of days. A similar conference was held 10 years prior and was represented in print in the volume titled Xenophon and his World, edited by C.J. Tuplin. Twenty-three papers were selected for presentation in this volume, which is also edited by Tuplin along with Fiona Hobden, both of whom are affiliated with the U. of Liverpool. The extraordinary historian of the ancient world is discussed in terms of such topics as Plutarch's reading, the Renaissance reception of Spartan Constitution, Socrates' trial and death, historical agency and self-awareness in Hellenica and Anabasis, and Xenophon on pride, on slavery, and on leadership. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

'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 demokratia : Athenian justice and the trial of the Arginusae generals in Xenophon's Hellenica / Dustin Gish

Timocrates' mission to Greece-once again / Guido Schepens

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-Andre Dorion

Why did Xenophon write the last chapter of the Cynegeticus? / Louis L'Allier

Best of the Persians : 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004224377

9004224378

9789004234192

9004234195

OCLC:

794034803