Xenophon : ethical principles and historical enquiry / / edited by Fiona Hobden, Christopher Tuplin

• Record Nr.: UNISA996237242903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-60214-8; 9786613914590; 90-04-23419-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (803 p.)
• Collana: Mnemosyne. Supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, , 0169-8958 ; ; v. 348
• Altri autori (Persone): HobdenFiona; TuplinChristopher
• Disciplina: 938.007202; 938.07; 938/.007202
• Soggetti: Historiography - Moral and ethical aspects - History - Greece - To 1500; HISTORY / Ancient / Greece; Greece History Historiography To 146 B.C
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Fiona Hobden and Christopher Tuplin -- Introduction / Fiona Hobden and Christopher Tuplin -- ‘Staying Up Late’: Plutarch’s Reading of Xenophon / Philip Stadter -- The Renaissance Reception of Xenophon’s Spartan Constitution: Preliminary Observations / Noreen Humble -- A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque / Tim Rood -- Strauss on Xenophon / David M. Johnson -- Defending dēmokratia: Athenian Justice and the Trial of the Arginusae Generals in Xenophon’s Hellenica / Dustin Gish -- Timocrates’ Mission to Greece—Once Again / Guido Schepens -- Three Defences of Socrates: Relative Chronology, Politics and Religion / † Michael Stokes -- Xenophon on Socrates’ Trial and Death / Robin Waterfield -- Mind the Gap: A ‘Snow Lacuna’ in Xenophon’s Anabasis? / Shane Brennan -- Historical Agency and Self-Awareness in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis / Sarah Brown Ferrario -- Spartan ‘Friendship’ ; and Xenophon’s Crafting of the Anabasis / Ellen Millender -- A Spectacle of Greekness: Panhellenism and the Visual in Xenophon’s Agesilaus / Rosie Harman -- The Nature and Status of sophia in the Memorabilia / Louis-André Dorion -- Why Did Xenophon Write the Last Chapter of the Cynegeticus? / Louis L’Allier -- The Best of the Achaemenids: Benevolence, Self-Interest and the ‘Ironic’ Reading of Cyropaedia / Gabriel Danzig -- Pheraulas Is the Answer, What Was the Question? (You Cannot Be Cyrus) / John Henderson -- Virtue and Leadership in Xenophon: Ideal Leaders or Ideal Losers? / Melina Tamiolaki -- Does Pride Go before a Fall? Xenophon on Arrogant Pride / Lisa Irene Hau -- Xenophon and the Persian Kiss / Pierre Pontier -- The Wonder of Freedom: Xenophon on Slavery / Emily Baragwanath -- Economic Thought and Economic Fact in the Works of Xenophon / Thomas J. Figueira -- The Philosophical Background of Xenophon’s Poroi / Stefan Schorn -- Strangers Incorporated: Outsiders in Xenophon’s Poroi / Joseph Jansen -- Index of Names / Fiona Hobden and Christopher Tuplin -- Thematic Index / Fiona Hobden and Christopher Tuplin.
• Sommario/riassunto: Xenophon’s personal history was exceptional for its combination of Socratic education and the exercise of military leadership in a time of crisis. His writings provide an intellectually and morally consistent response to his times and to the issue of ethical but effective leadership, and they play a special role in defining our sense of the post-Athenian-Empire Greek world. Recent Xenophontic scholarship has established the general truth of these claims. The current volume will not only reinforce them but also contribute to greater understanding of a voice that is neither simply ironic nor simply ingenuous and of a view of the world that is informed by an engagement with history.