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Xenophon's Anabasis, or, the expedition of Cyrus / Michael A. Flower.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies Available online
Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flower, Michael A., author.
- Series:
- Oxford approaches to classical literature.
- Oxford approaches to classical literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xenophon. Anabasis.
- Cyrus, the Younger, approximately 423 B.C.-401 B.C.
- Greece--History--Expedition of Cyrus, 401 B.C--Historiography.
- Iran--History--To 640--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 242 p.) : maps.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Xenophon's 'Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus' is one of the most exciting historical narratives - as well as the most important autobiographical work - to have survived from ancient Greece. This book both places the 'Anabasis' in its historical and literary context and, by employing a variety of critical methods, opens up for the reader different ways of interpreting its major themes.
- Contents:
- The Anabasis in context
- Xenophon as author, narrator, and agent
- Let it be fact and let it be fiction?
- Style and the shaping of narrative
- Xenophon takes command
- Xenophon on trial
- Reading the Anabasis
- The hand of God artfully placed.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-228) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-993919-5
- 0-19-998090-X
- 0-19-026122-6
- OCLC:
- 911195082
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