Xenophon and the History of His Times

ISBN-13: 9780415642934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 352 str.

John Dillery

Opis

This text examines Xenophon's longer historical works, the 'Hellenica' and the 'Anabasis'. John Dillery considers how far these texts reflect the Greek intellectual world of the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., rather than focusing on the traditional question of how accurate they are as histories.

Recenzje

`D avoids the temptationof proclaiming his author a misunderstod genius, wisely stressing that in his 'mediocrity' Xenophon, unlike more brilliant writers, represented the views of the majority ...' - Greece & Rome

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements Table of Contents Abbreviations 1. Beginnings and Ends 2. Utopia and Panhellenism: Xenophon, the Anabasis and the Spartans in Asia 3. Ideal Community, Ideal Leader: Paradigm as History 4. Xenophon, the Divine and the Crimes of Sparta Conclusion Bibliography

O autorze

John Dillery