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1 online resource (vii, 606 pages) |
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Oxford readings in classical studies |
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Oxford readings in classical studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction / V.J. Gray -- Status and gender. Slavery in the Greek domestic economy in the light of Xenophon's Oeconomicus / S.B. Pomeroy ; Xenophon's foreign wives / Emily Baragwanath ; Xenophon on male love / Clifford Hindley -- Democracy. Le programme de Xénophon dans les Poroi (Xenophon's programme in the Poroi) / Philippe Gauthier ; Virtuous toil, vicious work : Xenophon on aristocratic style / Steven Johnstone ; The seductions of the gaze : Socrates and his girlfriends / Simon Goldhill -- Socrates. Xenophon's Socrates as teacher / D.R. Morrison ; Der Xenophontische Sokrates als Dialektiker (Xenophon's Socrates as dialectician) / Andreas Patzer ; The dancing Sokrates and the laughing Xenophon, or the other Symposium / Bernhard Huss ; L'exégèse strausienne de Xénophon : le cas paradigmatique de Mémorables IV 4 (the Straussian exegesis of Xenophon : the paradigmatic case of Memorabilia IV 4) / Louis-André Dorion -- Cyropaedia. L'idée de monarchie imperiale dans la Cyropédie de Xénophon (the idea of imperial monarchy in Xenophon's Cyropaedia) / Pierre Carlier ; Fictional narrative in the Cyropaedeia / Philip Stadter ; Die Frage nach dem bios eudaimōn : die Begegnung zwischen Kyros und Kroisos bei Xenophon (the question of the bios eudaimōn : the encounter between Cyrus and Croesus in Xenophon) / Eckard Lefèvre ; Xenophon's Cyropaedia and the Hellenistic novel / Michael Reichel ; The death of Cyrus : Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a source for Iranian history / Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg -- Historical writing. The sources for the Spartan debacle at Haliartus / H.D. Westlake ; Xenophon's Anabasis / Hartmut Erbse ; You can't go home again : displacement and identity in Xenophon's Anabasis / John Ma ; Irony and the narrator in Xenophon's Anabasis / P.J. Bradley ; Interventions and citations in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis / V.J. Gray |
| Summary |
Xenophon's many and varied works represent a major source of information about the ancient Greek world: for example, about culture, politics, social life and history in the fourth century BC, Socrates, horses and hunting with dogs, the Athenian economy, and Sparta. However, there has been controversy about how his works should be read. This selection of significant modern critical essays will introduce readers to the wide range of his writing, the debates it has inspired, and theinterpretative methodologies that have been used. A specially written Introduction by Vivienne J. Gray offers a surv |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English; several articles translated from the French or German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Xenophon -- Criticism and interpretation
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Xenophon |
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Xenophon. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gray, Vivienne
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| ISBN |
9780191572562 |
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019157256X |
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9780199216178 |
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0199216177 |
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9780199216185 |
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0199216185 |
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