Christopher Tuplin Livres

Often depicted as an amateur who practised many trades badly, Xenophon is increasingly seen by a new generation of scholars as an important and distinctive voice on the history, society and thought-world of the later classical and pre-hellenistic era. The 24 papers published here originate from a ground-breaking Liverpool conference held to celebrate and build upon this transformation. Aus dem Inhalt E. Badian: Xenophon the Athenian M. Dreher: Der Prozess gegen Xenophon M. Sordi: Senofonte e la Sicilia R. Waterfield: Xenophon's Socratic mission F. Roscalla: Kalokagathia e kaloikagathoi C. Hindley: Xenophon's ethical erotics V. Azoulay: Xenophon, Cyrus and the King's Body T. Petit: Xénophon et la vassalité achéménide H. Bowden: Xenophon and religion R. Brock: Xenophon's political imagery J. Dillery: Xenophon, the military review and Hellenistic pompai J. Lee: The Lochos in Xenophon's Anabasis L. Tritle: Xenophon, Clearchus and PTSD T. Rood: Xenophon and Diodorus: continuing Thucydides E. Rung: Xenophon, the Oxyrhynchus Historian and Timocrates P. Funke: Der Doikismos von Mantineia N. Sterling: Xenophon's Hellenica and the Theban hegemony M. Jehne: Auslassungen in Xenophons Hellenika a. o.

Aus dem Inhalt: Cyprus before and under the Achaemenids: Problems in Chronology, Strategy, Assimilation and Ethnicity — The Parks and Gardens of the Achaemenid Empire — The Place of Persia in Athenian Literatur: Tragedy, Persian Landscape and Geography, Comedy, Orators and Philosophers, General Observations — Appendix: The Location of Places Mentioned in the Fortification Archive — Bibliography — Index

Current views of Xenophon's account of 404-362 BC under-play the fact that it is a chronological report of politico-military events which should be taken seriously and not seen merely as arbitrary pegs for didactic utterances. A reading of this idiosyncratic narrative is offered which shows how, by interplay of direct stress, allusiveness and telling silence, Xenophon invites a largely negative attitude to the major states and their leaders as they strive unsuccessfully for predominance. The record of Spartan aims and achievements is notably gloomy, but Thebes, Athens and Arcadia are also treated with scant respect. The disorder with which the work ends is the logical conclusion and a real source of discontent, not an excuse for terminating a narrative in which its author had lost interest.