The Cambridge companion to Xenophon / edited by Michael A. Flower.

"This Companion, the first dedicated to the philosopher and historian Xenophon of Athens, gives readers a sense of why he has held such a prominent place in literary and political culture from antiquity to the present and has been a favourite author of individuals as diverse as Machiavelli, Thomas J...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cambridge companions to literature.
Other Authors: Flower, Michael A. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Xenophon > Criticism and interpretation.
Xenophon.
Greece > History > To 146 B.C. > Historiography.
Historiography.
Greece.
To 146 B.C.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:xx, 520 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Michael A. Flower
  • Part I. Contexts: 1. Xenophon and his times / John W. I. Lee ; 2. Xenophon and Greek philosophy / Louis-André Dorion ; 3. Xenophon and Greek political thought / Sarah Brown Ferrario ; 4. Xenophon's place in fourth-century Greek historiography / Nino Luraghi
  • Part II. Individual Works: 5. Xenophon's Anabasis and Hellenica / John Marincola ; 6. Xenophon's Apology and Memorabilia / David M. Johnson ; 7. Xenophon's Symposium / Gabriel Danzig ; 8. Xenophon's Oeconomicus / Fiona Hobden ; 9. Xenophon's Cyropaedia: tentative answers to an enigma / Melina Tamiolaki ; 10. Xenophon: the small works / John Dillery
  • Part III. Techniques: 11. Xenophon's language and expression / Vivienne Gray ; 12. Xenophon's authorial voice / Christopher Pelling ; 13. Xenophon's narrative style / Tim Rood ; 14. The character and function of speeches in Xenophon / Emily Baragwanath
  • Part IV. Major Subjects: 15. Xenophon as a historian / Michael A. Flower ; 16. Xenophon on leadership / Richard Fernando Buxton ; 17. Xenophon and Athens / Christopher Tuplin ; 18. Xenophon on Persia / Kostas Vlassopoulos ; 19. Xenophon's views on Sparta / Paul Christesen
  • Part V. Reception and Influence: 20. Xenophon's influence in Imperial Greece Ewen Bowie ; 21. Xenophon and the instruction of princes / Noreen Humble ; 22. Xenophon's changing fortunes in the modern world / Tim Rood
  • Epilogue: Xenophon: magician and friend / Edith Hall
  • Important dates in the life of Xenophon.