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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Christopher Tuplin , Fiona HobdenPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 348 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.310kg ISBN: 9789004224377ISBN 10: 9004224378 Pages: 792 Publication Date: 28 August 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: Eng, Grc Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface ............................................................................................................................. iv Abbreviations................................................................................................................... v Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1 Fiona Hobden & Christopher Tuplin 1. `Staying up late'. Plutarch's reading of Xenophon .................................................30 Philip Stadter 2. The Renaissance reception of Xenophon's Spartan Constitution. Preliminary observations ..............................................................................................................45 Noreen Humble 3. A delightful retreat. Xenophon and the picturesque .................................................72 Tim Rood 4. Strauss's Xenophon...................................................................................................99 David Johnson 5. Defending demokratia. Athenian justice and the trial of the Arginusae generals in Xenophon's Hellenica..........................................................................................129 Dustin Gish 6. Timocrates' mission to Greece -- once again...........................................................169 Guido Schepens 7. Three defences of Socrates. Relative chronology, politics and religion...................192 Michael Stokes 8. Xenophon on Socrates' trial and death ....................................................................210 Robin Waterfield 9. Mind the gap. A `snow lacuna' in Xenophon's Anabasis?.......................................238 Shane Brennan 10. Historical agency and self-awareness in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis........262 Sarah Brown Ferrario 11. Spartan `friendship' and Xenophon's crafting of the Anabasis................................ 290 Ellen Millender 12. A spectacle of Greekness. Panhellenism and the visual in Xenophon's Agesilaus....................................................................................................................328 Rosie Harman 13. The nature and status of sophia in the Memorabilia..................................................349 Louis-Andre Dorion 14. Why did Xenophon write the last chapter of the Cynegeticus?..................................367 Louis L'Allier 15. Best of the Persians. Benevolence, self-interest and the `ironic' reading of Cyropaedia.................................................................................................................384 Gabriel Danzig 16. Pheraulas is the answer, what was the question? (You cannot be Cyrus.).................414 John Henderson 17. Virtue and leadership in Xenophon. Ideal leaders or ideal losers?.............................432 Melina Tamiolaki 18. Does pride go before a fall? Xenophon on arrogant pride..........................................454 Lisa Irene Hau 19. Xenophon and the Persian kiss....................................................................................470 Pierre Pontier 20. The wonder of freedom. Xenophon on slavery...........................................................487 Emily Baragwanath 21. Economic thought and economic fact in the works of Xenophon........................ .....514 Thomas J. Figueira 22. The philosophical background of Xenophon's Poroi.................................................532 Stefan Schorn 23. Strangers incorporated. Outsiders in Xenophon's Poroi............................................560 Joseph Jansen Index............................................................................................................................ReviewsAuthor InformationFiona Hobden is Senior Lecturer in Greek Culture at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought (forthcoming), and also works on aspects of Athenian culture and on Classical Reception. Christopher Tuplin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively in the fields of Classical Greek history and Achaemenid Studies, with a special interest in both cases in the work of Xenophon. Contributors: Emily Baragwanath, Shane Brennan, Gabriel Danzig, Louis-Andre Dorion, Sarah Ferrario, Thomas Figueira, Dustin Gish, Rosie Harman, Lisa Hau, John Henderson, Noreen Humble, Joseph Jansen, David Johnson, Louis L'Allier, Ellen Millender, Pierre Pontier, Timothy Rood, Guido Schepens, Stefan Schorn, Philip Stadter, Michael Stokes, Melina Tamiolaki, Robin Waterfield Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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