Xenophon's Anabasis and its reception / edited by Tim Rood and Melina Tamiolaki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rood, Tim, editor.

Tamiolaki, Mélina, 1977- editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 134.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; volume 134

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--Expedition of Cyrus, 401 B.C.

Greece.

Xenophon. Anabasis.

Xenophon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (572 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2022]

Summary:

This volume constitutes the first large-scale collaborative reflection on Xenophon’s Anabasis, gathering experts on Greek historiography and Xenophon. It is structured in three sections: the first section provides a linear reading of the Anabasis through chapters on select episodes (from Book 1 through Book 7), including the opening, Cyrus’ characterisation, the meeting of Socrates and Xenophon, Xenophon’s leadership, the marches through Armenia and along the Black Sea coast and the service under Seuthes in Thrace.The second section offers an in-depth exploration of hitherto overlooked recurrent themes. Based on new approaches and scholarly trends, it focuses on topics such as the concept of friendship, the speeches of characters other than Xenophon, the suffering of the human body, the role of rumour and misrepresentation, and the depiction of emotions.The third section offers a more thorough investigation of the manifold reception of this work (in Antiquity, Byzantium, Renaissance, modern period, in cinema studies and illustrations).Finally, in acknowledgement of the Anabasis’ long history as a pedagogical text, the volume contains an envoi on the importance and benefits of teaching Xenophon and the Anabasis, more specifically.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

List of Figures

Introduction

Part I: New Readings of Xenophon’s Anabasis

Starting and Restarting the Anabasis

Killing the King: Cyrus’ Attack on his Brother in Anabasis, and its Reception in Cyropaedia

Xenophon’s Moral Luck: Crisis and Leadership Opportunity in Anabasis 3

The Reception and Interpretation of Xenophon’s Discussion with Socrates in the Anabasis (3.1.4–8)

From the Tigris to the Sea: The Problematic Geography of Anabasis Book 4

A Universalist Moral Compass: Depicting Greeks and Foreigners in Anabasis 5 and 6

Xenophon’s Woes in Thrace: The Very Model of a Modern Mercenary Commander?

Part II: Themes in Xenophon’s Anabasis

Friendship (φιλία) in Xenophon’s Anabasis

Beyond Xenophon: Other Speakers in Xenophon’s Anabasis

Rumour and Misrepresentation in Xenophon’s Anabasis

Emotions and Narrative in Xenophon’s Anabasis: Leaders Handling Negative Emotions

The Human Body in Xenophon’s Anabasis

Part III: The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis from Antiquity to Modern Times

Anabasis as Monument: Arrian, Xenophontic Space, and Literary Authority

Xenophon and Arrian: Aspects of Leadership in their Anabases

The Anabases of Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’ Charicleia

The Siren’s Song: Xenophon’s Anabasis in Byzantium

The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis in the 15th and 16th Centuries

The Anabasis Illustrated

Voltaire: Questions on the Anabasis

Scillus and After: The Historian’s Retreat from Xenophon to Toynbee

The Anabasis in Paramount’s Promotion of The Warriors (1979): From the Gang Streets to The New York Times

Envoi

Teaching the Anabasis in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Prospects

List of Contributors

General Index

Index of Key Passages

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-079343-1

OCLC:

1348492794