Xenophon and the Athenian democracy : the education of an elite citizenry / Matthew R. Christ.

"This book seeks to understand Xenophon as an elite Athenian writing largely for an elite Athenian audience in the first half of the fourth century B.C. It argues that Xenophon calls on men of his own class to set aside their assumptions of superiority based on birth or wealth and to reinvent themse...

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Main Author: Christ, Matthew Robert (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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Physical Description:ix, 215 pages ; 24 cm
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505 0 |a Introduction : Xenophon the Athenian -- Athens in crisis in the Hellenica -- Politics and the gentleman in the Memorabilia -- Work, money, and the gentleman in the Oeconomicus -- The education of Callias -- Xenophon as expert, adviser, and reformer in the Hipparchus and Poroi -- Xenophon the democratic orator : the politics of mass and elite in the Anabasis -- Conclusions : elite readers, elite citizens. 
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