The Hellenica
Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2021-12-09 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 3986771344 |
Hellenica Xenophon - One of the more important works of the ancient Greek writer, soldier, and historian Xenophon, "Hellenica" is essentially a history of Greek occurrences from 411 to 362 BCE. It continues a similar account begun by Thucydides to detail the events of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon is the principal source for today's historians on the last seven years of this war, including the Battle of Mantineia, as well as the war's aftermath. Written during Xenophon's retirement on his estate in Sparta, "Hellenica" is thought to be a personal work, intended for his friends, who were likely participants of many of the battles and knew the main warriors, political leaders, and events of the time. Through his more personal approach, this friend of Socrates proves his excellence as a writer with his masterful exposition, as well as his considerable ability as a historian with his memory for detail and breadth of topics. Ultimately, the result is a window into a turbulent period in the history of Greece, giving even today's readers an intimate, eye-opening view into the lives of the ancients.
Author | : Edward Mewburn Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Hellenica Oxyrhynchia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Egidia Occhipinti |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2016-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004325786 |
This book involves a historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works and its role as a source of Diodorus’ Bibliotheke. The study is supported by intertextual comparison, narratological and papyrological investigations.
Author | : Vivienne Gray |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Viviene Gray examinesthe Hellenika not as an account of historical events, but as piece of historical writing. In it, she attempts to discover the mentality of the writer.
Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : 0375422552 |
Here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. --from publisher description.
Author | : Xenophon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Aggelos Kapellos |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110668319 |
The advances in Xenophontic studies of the last generation have still not resulted in a definitive literary treatment of the Hellenica 1-2, so Xenophon’s description of the Peloponnesian War deserves closer examination. This book aims to show that Xenophon has crafted his narrative in such a way as to reinforce the opinion of Thucydides, whose work he continued, that the development of the Peloponnesian War depended to a great extent on Persian money, but the factors that ultimately determined its outcome were the moral virtues and the skills of the military leaders of Athens and Sparta. Regarding Athens, Xenophon wants to show that despite Persia’s support of Sparta, Athens lost the war because of its troubled relationship with Alcibiades; the moral disintegration of the Athenians who condemned illegally the Arginousai generals and the appointment of generals who were greatly inferior. Concerning Sparta, Xenophon leads his readers to believe that in spite of- not because of- the interference of Persia in the Peloponnesian War the moral and military qualities of Lysander and Callicratidas were what turned the course of the war either in favor of or against Sparta in each phase of the war.