In the past Xenophon's Cyropaedia has attracted the attention of scholars primarily for literary-historical reasons. It is one of the main tasks of the present publication to free discussion of the work from this relatively narrow disciplinary constraint. As questions of genre cannot be ignored anyway, the volume opens with contributions that consider where Cyropaedia stands in relation to historiography, the novel and Socratic literature. The next group of studies deals with how Xenophon drew on material from other authors and from his own experience to develop a picture of the emergence of the Persian Empire and of the way in which power was exercised there. Investigations of this sort presuppose questions about the historie that underpins Cyropaedia, and that topic is the focus of two further contributions that deal specifically with the types of information that were available to Xenophon. A final group of contributions looks at the impact of the work in canonical and deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament, in the writings of the Alexander historians and in modern literature up to the 18th century.
Author(s): Bruno Jacobs (editor); Robert Rollinger (editor)
Series: (Classica Et Orientalia) 22
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 456
Cover
Title Pages
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Bruno Jacobs: Christopher J. Tuplin: an Appreciation
Bibliography of Publications of Christopher J. Tuplin
Genre and Meaning
Frances Pownall: Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Greek Historiography
Irene Madreiter: Cyropaedia and the Greek ‘Novel’ again
Louis-André Dorion: Cyrus and Socrates: Two Models on an Equal Footing?
The Author’s View
Reinhold Bichler: Cyropaedia – ‘Historical Space’ and the Nations at the Fringes of the Oikumene
John E. Esposito: On the Fundamental Activities of the Leader
in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus
Michael A. Flower: Xenophon’s Anabasis and Cyropaedia: a Tale of Two Cyruses
Gabriel Danzig: The Younger Cyrus and the Alter Cyrus
Cyropaedia as Historical Source
Julian Degen: Ancient Near Eastern Traditions in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
Bruno Jacobs: Cyropaedia and the “Gift-Bearer Reliefs” from the So-called apadāna at Persepolis
Literary Reception
Sabine Müller: Xenophon’s Kyroupaideia and the Alexander Historiographers
Deborah L. Gera: Luxury and Authority in the Cyropaedia, Esther, and Judith
Sulochana Asirvatham: The Cyropaedia in Imperial Greek Literature
Richard Stoneman: Xenophon’s Education of Cyrusin Early Modern Europe
Noreen Humble: Worn out in the Reading: Xenophon’s Cyropaedia in the Sixteenth Century
Melina Tamiolaki: Straussian Readings of the Cyropaedia: Challenges and Controversies
Concluding Remarks
Vivienne Gray: Reflections on Near Eastern Realities in the Cyropaedia
Indices
Names of Persons and Deities
Topo- and Ethnonyms
