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| Author | : Michael Lipka |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2012-08-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 311088724X |
Download Xenophon's Spartan Constitution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
| Author | : Anton Powell |
| Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2020-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1910589985 |
Download Xenophon and Sparta Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Xenophon has for long, and understandably, enjoyed a privileged position as a reliable source on Sparta. Commander of a grand military expedition of Sparta's devising, and a dependent of Sparta's influential king Agesilaos, Xenophon knew Sparta from the inside, and - as himself an Athenian in exile - was well placed to comment on Sparta's difference. The simplicity of his Greek style has a perfume of honesty. And yet... Recent research has with increasing force called into doubt Xenophon's motives and truthfulness - especially as regards Sparta. Analysis of his Hellenica reveals much evasion and euphemism about Sparta's failings - complicated by occasional outbursts against the iniquity of Spartan imperialism. His euphemistic Constitution of the Lakedaimonians (itself containing such an outburst), and his near-hagiography of the dead Agesilaos, have variously evoked trust and suspicion in historians. This book, by a distinguished team of specialists in Spartan history, is the first of a short series from CPW, approaching Spartan reality by way of close analysis of our main contemporary Greek sources: their access, their biases, the literary structure and the genre of their works.
| Author | : G. Proietti |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 140 |
| Release | : 2018-07-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004328335 |
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Xenophon is usually believed to have written his Hellenica as a general ''history of his own times'' in Greece, and is criticized for his disproportionately close attention to Spartan affairs and his apparent bias in favour of the Spartans. But his treatment of Sparta is much more coherent and purposive than has been noticed; and knowing the cirumstances of his life, we should consider that there were ample reasons of prudence (at least) for him to have written with much circumspection about Sparta and especially about Agesilaus and Agesilaus' friends. This methodical interpretative study of Lysander in the Hellenica as well as of the Polity of the Lacedaemonians demonstrates that Xenophon wrote aobut this city - famous for the communal life of its citizens - with critical and philosophic intent. As a case study in reading classical history, it might signal the need for a complete reevaluation of other historians as well.
| Author | : Noreen Humble |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 399 |
| Release | : 2021-12-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108479979 |
Download Xenophon of Athens Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Challenges the long-held view that Xenophon is pro-Spartan, arguing that his stance is, rather, critical and philosophical.
| Author | : Michael A. Flower |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107050065 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.
| Author | : Vincent Azoulay |
| Publisher | : Franz Steiner Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 540 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9783515083928 |
Download Xenophon and His World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
These twenty-four papers originated at a conference held in 1999 which was dedicated to Xenophon's writings and to the many areas of Greek life for which he is a major source. The contributions, which also reflect the problems of recreating a life that we have so few facts for, are divided into seven sections which discuss: Xenophon's life; Xenophon and Socrates; Xenophon and the barbarian world; Sparta; religion and politics; Anabasis ; Hellenica . These wide-ranging papers are specialised, often based on a close reading on Xenophon's texts, and not all of the Greek is translated. Eighteen papers, plus the introduction, are in English; the remaining papers are in Italian or German.
| Author | : Xenophon |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 1883 |
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| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : John Prevas |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2009-04-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0786747773 |
Download Xenophon's March Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The year is 403 B.C. The Athenian philosopher Xenophon finds himself with an army of Greeks marching to what is now Turkey. Their mission: to aid the Persian pretender Cyrus in a war against his brother Artaxerxes. At a great battle, Cyrus is killed and his army destroyed—except for the Greeks holding his right flank. Xenophon and the Greeks are now stranded in the heart of the Persian Empire, outnumbered a hundred to one. The story of Xenophon's march to escape the Persian noose is an intensely personal and human tale, replete with clashes of arms and desperate hardships. It is also the tale of two civilizations at mortal odds with each other. With their turbulent mix of anarchy and democracy, Xenophon's men resembled a mobile Greek city, cutting both a military and a cultural slash through the Persian Empire. Though Xenophon's journey would end badly, his experience in the East would prove invaluable for those who followed, for sixty years later, the Greeks would return to Persia under Alexander. John Prevas brings this epoch-shaping story to life with a compelling narrative vivified by his personal retracing of much of the route trod by Xenophon and his men in one of history's great adventures.
| Author | : Xenophon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 12 |
| Release | : 2007-05-17 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0521581540 |
Download Xenophon on Government Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Xenophon of Athens was a pupil of Socrates and a philosopher in his own right. He wrote two of the texts included in this volume, the Hiero (On Tyranny) and the Constitution of the Spartans. The third, the Constitution of the Athenians, is found under Xenophon's name alongside the other two in the manuscripts. The works represent three distinct types of government (the rule of one man in tyranny and kingship, the rule of law in the mixed constitution of the Spartans, and the rule of the masses in the Athenian democracy), but there are common features throughout. This volume presents an introduction discussing Xenophon's views on government in the context of his general political thought, drawing particularly on his Socratic work Memorabilia, and a commentary on the Greek text of each work aimed primarily at advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
| Author | : Xenophon |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2018-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501718517 |
Download The Shorter Writings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume contains new, literal translations of Xenophon's eight shorter writings along with interpretive essays on each work: Hiero, or The Skilled Tyrant; Agesilaus; Regime of the Lacedaemonians; Regime of the Athenians; Ways and Means, or On Revenue; The Skilled Cavalry Commander; On Horsemanship; and The One Skilled at Hunting with Dogs.
