Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry

Fiona Hobden, Christopher Tuplin

BRILL, Aug 28, 2012 - History - 791 pages

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.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Plutarchs Reading of Xenophon: 43
• Preliminary Observations: 63
• Xenophon and the Picturesque: 89
• 4 Strauss on Xenophon: 123
• Athenian Justice and the Trial of the Arginusae Generals in Xenophons Hellenica: 161
• 6 Timocrates Mission to GreeceOnce Again: 213
• Relative Chronology Politics and Religion: 243
• 8 Xenophon on Socrates Trial and Death: 269
• A Snow Lacuna in Xenophons Anabasis?: 307
• 10 Historical Agency and SelfAwareness in Xenophons Hellenica and Anabasis: 341
• 11 Spartan Friendship and Xenophons Crafting of the Anabasis: 377
• Panhellenism and the Visual in Xenophons Agesilaus: 427
• 13 The Nature and Status of sophia in the Memorabilia: 455
• 14 Why Did Xenophon Write the Last Chapter of the Cynegeticus?: 477
• Benevolence SelfInterest and the Ironic Reading of Cyropaedia: 499
• 16 Pheraulas Is the Answer What Was the Question? You Cannot Be Cyrus: 541
• Ideal Leaders or Ideal Losers?: 563
• 18 Does Pride Go before a Fall? Xenophon on Arrogant Pride: 591
• 19 Xenophon and the Persian Kiss: 611
• Xenophon on Slavery: 631
• 21 Economic Thought and Economic Fact in the Works of Xenophon: 665
• 22 The Philosophical Background of Xenophons Poroi: 689
• Outsiders in Xenophons Poroi: 725
• Index of Names: 761
• Thematic Index: 772

About the author

Fiona 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-Andr 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

Bibliographic information

• Title: Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry; Volume 348 of Mnemosyne Supplements; Volume 348 of Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; Volume 348 of Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava: Supplementum
• Editors: Fiona Hobden, Christopher Tuplin
• Publisher: BRILL, 2012
• ISBN: 9004224378, 9789004224377
• Length: 791 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / Greece; Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical