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Autore: | Gray Vivienne |
Titolo: | Xenophon's mirror of princes : reading the reflections |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (405 p.) |
Disciplina: | 938/.007202 |
Soggetto topico: | Leadership in literature - History and criticism |
Greek literature | |
Languages & Literatures | |
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Mirror of princes or flaws in the glass? : general remarks -- Explicit authorial evaluations in historical writing -- Xenophon's adaptations of his literary predecessors : Homer, Herodotus, and others -- Xenophon's patterned narratives of leadership -- Readings of Cyropaedia -- The dynamics of friendship -- Xenophon's Socratic and other ironies. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This title is a study of images of leadership in Xenophon's narrative works. Gray argues that Xenophon employs techniques such as the creation of patterned narratives, as well as allusions to Homer and Herodotus. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Mirror of princes reading the reflections |
Titolo autorizzato: | Xenophon's mirror of princes : reading the reflections |
ISBN: | 0-19-172495-5 |
0-19-956381-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996203497103316 |
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