Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical EnquiryChristopher Tuplin, Fiona Hobden 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 |
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 |
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 |
22 The Philosophical Background of Xenophons Poroi | 689 |
Outsiders in Xenophons Poroi | 725 |
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