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Xenophon's Spartan Constitution : Introduction. Text. Commentary / Michael Lipka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lipka, Michael, author.
- Series:
- Texte und Kommentare ; 24
- Standardized Title:
- Constitution of the Lacedaimonians. English & Greek
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xenophon. Constitution of the Lacedaimonians.
- Xenophon.
- Military art and science.
- Sparta (Extinct city)--Politics and government.
- Sparta (Extinct city).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Der vorliegende Band bietet eine kritische Neuausgabe der unter dem Namen Xenophons (ca. 430 - 355 v. Chr.) überlieferten staatsphilosophischen Schrift Der Staat der Spartaner. Der griechische Text ist auf der Basis der wichtigsten Handschriften neu rekonstruiert worden. Ergänzt wird er von einer ausführlichen Einleitung, einem kritischen Kommentar und einer Übersetzung ins Englische. Die Einleitung diskutiert Fragen der Authentizität und der Datierung und informiert umfassend über Quellen und Rezeption, Sprache und Stil sowie über die Handschriftenlage. Der Kommentar ist sowohl philologischen wie auch historischen Problemen gewidmet.
- This work presents a new critical edition of The Spartan Constitution, a treatise in state philosophy attributed to the historian Xenophon (c. 430 - c. 355 B. C.). The Greek text, reconstructed on the basis of extant manuscript sources, is prefaced by an introduction and supplemented by a critical commentary and an English translation. The introduction discusses the problem of the text's authenticity and dating and provides a comprehensive account of its sources, reception, language, style and structure as well as an analysis of the manuscript sources and the textual tradition. The commentary addresses linguistic as well as historical problems.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- SIGLORUM CONSPECTUS
- TEXT AND TRANSLATION
- COMMENTARY
- APPENDIXES
- FIGURES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEXES
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9783110887242
- 311088724X
- OCLC:
- 979883458
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