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.
Author(s): Vivienne J. Gray
Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 602
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
I. STATUS AND GENDER......Page 40
1. Slavery in the Greek Domestic Economy in the Light of Xenophon’s Oeconomicus......Page 42
2. Xenophon’s Foreign Wives......Page 52
3. Xenophon on Male Love......Page 83
II. DEMOCRACY......Page 122
4. Le Programme de Xénophon dans les Poroi (Xenophon’s Programme in the Poroi)......Page 124
5. Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style......Page 148
6. The Seductions of the Gaze: Socrates and his Girlfriends......Page 178
III. SOCRATES......Page 204
7. Xenophon’s Socrates as Teacher......Page 206
8. Der Xenophontische Sokrates als Dialektiker (Xenophon’s Socrates as Dialectician)......Page 239
9. The Dancing Sokrates and the Laughing Xenophon, or the Other Symposium......Page 268
10. L’exégèse strausienne de Xénophon: le cas paradigmatique de Mémorables IV 4 (The Straussian Exegesis of Xenophon: The Paradigmatic Case of Memorabilia IV 4)......Page 294
IV. CYROPAEDIA......Page 336
11. L’idée de monarchie imperiale dans la Cyropédie de Xénophon (The Idea of Imperial Monarchy in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia)......Page 338
12. Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia......Page 378
13. Die Frage nach dem BIOΣ EYΔAIMΩN. Die Begegnung zwischen Kyros und Kroisos bei Xenophon (The Question of the BIOΣ EγΔAIMΩN: The Encounter between Cyrus and Croesus in Xenophon)......Page 412
14. Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and the Hellenistic Novel......Page 429
15. The Death of Cyrus: Xenophon’s Cyropaedia as a Source for Iranian History......Page 450
V. HISTORICAL WRITING......Page 466
16. The Sources for the Spartan Debacle at Haliartus......Page 468
17. Xenophon’s Anabasis......Page 487
18. You Can’t Go Home Again: Displacement and Identity in Xenophon’s Anabasis......Page 513
19. Irony and the Narrator in Xenophon’s Anabasis......Page 531
20. Interventions and Citations in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis......Page 564
Bibliography......Page 584
