A selection of important recent articles on Xenophon which will serve as an introduction to his writings by presenting current debates about the way in which to read them. A specially written introduction by Vivienne J. Gray places the articles in the context of Xenophon's life and works. INDICE: 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: Xenophonon 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. HistoricalWriting; 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
- ISBN: 978-0-19-921617-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 624
- Fecha Publicación: 04/02/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés