Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry
Biographical note
Fiona Hobden is Senior Lecturer in Greek Culture at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought (forthcoming), and also works on aspects of Athenian culture and on Classical Reception.
Christopher Tuplin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively in the fields of Classical Greek history and Achaemenid Studies, with a special interest in both cases in the work of Xenophon.
Contributors: Emily Baragwanath, Shane Brennan, Gabriel Danzig, Louis-André Dorion, Sarah Ferrario, Thomas Figueira, Dustin Gish, Rosie Harman, Lisa Hau, John Henderson, Noreen Humble, Joseph Jansen, David Johnson, Louis L'Allier, Ellen Millender, Pierre Pontier, Timothy Rood, Guido Schepens, Stefan Schorn, Philip Stadter, Michael Stokes, Melina Tamiolaki, Robin Waterfield
Christopher Tuplin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively in the fields of Classical Greek history and Achaemenid Studies, with a special interest in both cases in the work of Xenophon.
Contributors: Emily Baragwanath, Shane Brennan, Gabriel Danzig, Louis-André Dorion, Sarah Ferrario, Thomas Figueira, Dustin Gish, Rosie Harman, Lisa Hau, John Henderson, Noreen Humble, Joseph Jansen, David Johnson, Louis L'Allier, Ellen Millender, Pierre Pontier, Timothy Rood, Guido Schepens, Stefan Schorn, Philip Stadter, Michael Stokes, Melina Tamiolaki, Robin Waterfield
Readership
Classicists and historians of classical antiquity, especially those working on historiography, moral philosophy or the political and intellectual history of the fourth century BC.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Preface ............................................................................................................................. iv
Abbreviations................................................................................................................... v
Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1
Fiona Hobden & Christopher Tuplin
1. ‘Staying up late’. Plutarch’s reading of Xenophon .................................................30
Philip Stadter
2. The Renaissance reception of Xenophon’s Spartan Constitution. Preliminary observations ..............................................................................................................45
Noreen Humble
3. A delightful retreat. Xenophon and the picturesque .................................................72
Tim Rood
4. Strauss’s Xenophon...................................................................................................99
David Johnson
5. Defending dēmokratia. Athenian justice and the trial of the Arginusae generals
in Xenophon’s Hellenica..........................................................................................129
Dustin Gish
6. Timocrates’ mission to Greece -- once again...........................................................169
Guido Schepens
7. Three defences of Socrates. Relative chronology, politics and religion...................192
Michael Stokes
8. Xenophon on Socrates’ trial and death ....................................................................210
Robin Waterfield
9. Mind the gap. A ‘snow lacuna’ in Xenophon’s Anabasis?.......................................238
Shane Brennan
10. Historical agency and self-awareness in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis........262 Sarah Brown Ferrario
11. Spartan ‘friendship’ and Xenophon’s crafting of the Anabasis................................ 290
Ellen Millender
12. A spectacle of Greekness. Panhellenism and the visual in Xenophon’s
Agesilaus....................................................................................................................328
Rosie Harman
13. The nature and status of sophia in the Memorabilia..................................................349
Louis-André Dorion
14. Why did Xenophon write the last chapter of the Cynegeticus?..................................367
Louis L’Allier
15. Best of the Persians. Benevolence, self-interest and the ‘ironic’ reading of
Cyropaedia.................................................................................................................384
Gabriel Danzig
16. Pheraulas is the answer, what was the question? (You cannot be Cyrus.).................414
John Henderson
17. Virtue and leadership in Xenophon. Ideal leaders or ideal losers?.............................432
Melina Tamiolaki
18. Does pride go before a fall? Xenophon on arrogant pride..........................................454
Lisa Irene Hau
19. Xenophon and the Persian kiss....................................................................................470
Pierre Pontier
20. The wonder of freedom. Xenophon on slavery...........................................................487
Emily Baragwanath
21. Economic thought and economic fact in the works of Xenophon........................ .....514
Thomas J. Figueira
22. The philosophical background of Xenophon’s Poroi.................................................532
Stefan Schorn
23. Strangers incorporated. Outsiders in Xenophon’s Poroi............................................560
Joseph Jansen
Index............................................................................................................................
Preface ............................................................................................................................. iv
Abbreviations................................................................................................................... v
Introduction....................................................................................................................... 1
Fiona Hobden & Christopher Tuplin
1. ‘Staying up late’. Plutarch’s reading of Xenophon .................................................30
Philip Stadter
2. The Renaissance reception of Xenophon’s Spartan Constitution. Preliminary observations ..............................................................................................................45
Noreen Humble
3. A delightful retreat. Xenophon and the picturesque .................................................72
Tim Rood
4. Strauss’s Xenophon...................................................................................................99
David Johnson
5. Defending dēmokratia. Athenian justice and the trial of the Arginusae generals
in Xenophon’s Hellenica..........................................................................................129
Dustin Gish
6. Timocrates’ mission to Greece -- once again...........................................................169
Guido Schepens
7. Three defences of Socrates. Relative chronology, politics and religion...................192
Michael Stokes
8. Xenophon on Socrates’ trial and death ....................................................................210
Robin Waterfield
9. Mind the gap. A ‘snow lacuna’ in Xenophon’s Anabasis?.......................................238
Shane Brennan
10. Historical agency and self-awareness in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis........262 Sarah Brown Ferrario
11. Spartan ‘friendship’ and Xenophon’s crafting of the Anabasis................................ 290
Ellen Millender
12. A spectacle of Greekness. Panhellenism and the visual in Xenophon’s
Agesilaus....................................................................................................................328
Rosie Harman
13. The nature and status of sophia in the Memorabilia..................................................349
Louis-André Dorion
14. Why did Xenophon write the last chapter of the Cynegeticus?..................................367
Louis L’Allier
15. Best of the Persians. Benevolence, self-interest and the ‘ironic’ reading of
Cyropaedia.................................................................................................................384
Gabriel Danzig
16. Pheraulas is the answer, what was the question? (You cannot be Cyrus.).................414
John Henderson
17. Virtue and leadership in Xenophon. Ideal leaders or ideal losers?.............................432
Melina Tamiolaki
18. Does pride go before a fall? Xenophon on arrogant pride..........................................454
Lisa Irene Hau
19. Xenophon and the Persian kiss....................................................................................470
Pierre Pontier
20. The wonder of freedom. Xenophon on slavery...........................................................487
Emily Baragwanath
21. Economic thought and economic fact in the works of Xenophon........................ .....514
Thomas J. Figueira
22. The philosophical background of Xenophon’s Poroi.................................................532
Stefan Schorn
23. Strangers incorporated. Outsiders in Xenophon’s Poroi............................................560
Joseph Jansen
Index............................................................................................................................
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