Xenophon

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-921618-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 624 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 854 g

Reihe: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies

Xenophon's many and varied works represent a major source of information about the ancient Greek world: for example, about culture, politics, social life and history in the fourth century BC, Socrates, horses and hunting with dogs, the Athenian economy, and Sparta. However, there has been controversy about how his works should be read. This selection of significant modern critical essays will introduce readers to the wide range of his writing, the debates it has
inspired, and the interpretative methodologies that have been used. A specially written Introduction by Vivienne J. Gray offers a survey of Xenophon's works, an account of his life with respect to them, a brief discussion of modern readings, reference to modern scholarship since the original publication
of the articles, and a critical summary of their content. Several articles have been translated for the first time from French and German, and all quotations have been translated into English.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Vivienne J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vivienne J. Gray: Introduction
I. Status and Gender
1: Sarah B. Pomeroy: Slavery in the Greek Domestic Economy in the Light of Xenophon's Oeconomicus
2: Emily Baragwanath: Xenophon's Foreign Wives
3: Clifford Hindley: Xenophon on Male Love
II. Democracy
4: Philippe Gauthier: Xenophon's Programme in the Poroi
5: Steven Johnstone: Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style
6: Simon Goldhill: The Seductions of the Gaze: Socrates and his Girlfriends
III. Socrates
7: Donald R. Morrison: Xenophon's Socrates as Teacher
8: Andreas Patzer: Xenophon's Socrates as Dialectician
9: Bernhard Huss: The Dancing Socrates and the Laughing Xenophon, or The Other Symposium
10: Louis-Andre Dorion: The Straussian Interpretation of Xenophon: The Paradigmatic Case of Memorabilia IV.4
IV. Cyropaedia
11: Pierre Carlier: The Idea of Imperial Monarchy in Xenophon's Cyropaedia
12: Philip Stadter: Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia
13: E. Lefevre: The Question of the Good Life. The Meeting of Cyrus and Croesus in Xenophon
14: Michael Reichel: Xenophon's Cyropaedia and the Hellenistic Novel
15: H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg: The death of Cyrus. Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a Source for Iranian History
V. Historical Writing
16: H. D. Westlake: The Sources for the Spartan Debacle at Haliartus
17: Hartmut Erbse: Xenophon's Anabasis
18: John Ma: You can't go home again: Displacement and Identity in Xenophon's Anabasis
19: Patrick J. Bradley: Irony and the Narrator in Xenophon's Anabasis
20: Vivienne J. Gray: Interventions and Citations in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis

Über Autor(innen)

Gray, Vivienne J.
Vivienne J. Gray, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland.

Vivienne J. Gray is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland.