The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon

545 Pages·2017·7.877 MB·English

by  Michael A. Flower (Editor)

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The Cambridge Companion
to Xenophon
This Companion , the fi rst dedicated to the philosopher and historian Xenophon
of Athens, gives readers a sense of why he has held such a prominent place
in literary and political culture from antiquity to the present and has been a
favorite author of individuals as diverse as Machiavelli, Thomas Jefferson, and
Leo Tolstoy. It also sets out the major problems and issues that are at stake in
the study of his writings, while simultaneously pointing the way forward to
newer methodologies, issues, and questions. Although Xenophon’s historical,
philosophical, and technical works are usually studied in isolation because they
belong to different modern genres, the emphasis here is on themes that cut across
his large and varied body of writings. This volume is accessible to students and
general readers, including those previously unfamiliar with Xenophon, and will
also be of interest to scholars in various fi elds.
Michael A. Flower is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His major
research and teaching interests are in ancient Greek history, historiography,
and religion. He is the author of Theopompus of Chios: History and Rhetoric
in the Fourth Century BC (1994), Herodotus, Histories, Book IX (with
John Marincola, 2002), T he Seer in Ancient Greece (2008), and X enophon’s
Anabasis, or the Expedition of Cyrus (2012) and the co-editor (with Mark
Toher) of Georgica: Greek Studies in Honour of George Cawkwell (1991).
A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book.
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THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO
X E N O P H O N
EDITED BY
MICHAEL A. FLOWER
Professor of Classics
Princeton University
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CONTENTS
List of Maps and Illustrations page v iii
List of Contributors ix
Preface x iv
List of Abbreviations x vi
Maps x vii
Introduction 1
Michael A. Flower
PART 1 CONTEXTS
1 Xenophon and his Times 1 5
John W. I. Lee
2 Xenophon and Greek Philosophy 3 7
Louis- André Dorion
3 Xenophon and Greek Political Thought 5 7
Sarah Brown Ferrario
4 Xenophon’s Place in Fourth-C entury Greek Historiography 8 4
Nino Luraghi
PART II INDIVIDUAL WORKS
5 Xenophon’s Anabasis and Hellenica 1 03
John Marincola
6 Xenophon’s Apology and Memorabilia 1 19
David M. Johnson
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Contents
7 X enophon’s Symposium 132
Gabriel Danzig
8 X enophon’s Oeconomicus 1 52
Fiona Hobden
9 X enophon’s Cyropaedia : Tentative Answers to an Enigma 1 74
Melina Tamiolaki
10 Xenophon: the Small Works 1 95
John Dillery
PART III TECHNIQUES
11 Xenophon’s Language and Expression 2 23
Vivienne Gray
12 Xenophon’s Authorial Voice 2 41
Christopher Pelling
13 Xenophon’s Narrative Style 2 63
Tim Rood
14 The Character and Function of Speeches in Xenophon 2 79
Emily Baragwanath
PART IV MAJOR SUBJECTS
15 Xenophon as a Historian 3 01
Michael A. Flower
16 Xenophon on Leadership: Commanders as Friends 3 23
Richard Fernando Buxton
17 Xenophon and Athens 3 38
Christopher Tuplin
18 Xenophon on Persia 3 60
Kostas Vlassopoulos
19 Xenophon’s Views on Sparta 3 76
Paul Christesen
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Contents
PART V RECEPTION AND INFLUENCE
20 Xenophon’s Infl uence in Imperial Greece 4 03
Ewen Bowie
21 Xenophon and the Instruction of Princes 4 16
Noreen Humble
22 Xenophon’s Changing Fortunes in the Modern World 4 35
Tim Rood
Epilogue: Xenophon: Magician and Friend 4 49
Edith Hall
Important Dates in the Life of Xenophon 4 59
Bibliography 4 61
Index 4 95

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MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Maps
1 T he Achaemenid Empire x vii
2 G reece and western Asia Minor xviii
3 C entral Greece xix
4 T he March of the Ten Thousand, 401–3 99  BC xx
Illustrations
8.1 Marriages and children in the families of Callias and Ischomachus 1 71
21.1 M anuscript illustration from Francesco Filelfo’s translation of the
Cyropaedia , 1470 418
22.1 The letters W and X from “[The] paragon of alphabets,” ca. 1815 4 41
22.2 T he Choice of Heracles by Paolo de Matteis, 1712 445
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CONTRIBUTORS
Emily Baragwanath (Associate Professor of Classics, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill) has research interests in Greek literature and culture,
and especially historiography. She is the author of Motivation and Narrative in
Herodotus (2008), co- author of the H erodotus Oxford Bibliography Online, and
co- editor of Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus (2012) (both with Mathieu
de Bakker).
Ewen Bowie (formerly Praelector in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the University of Oxford;
now an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College) has published articles on early
Greek elegiac, iambic, and lyric poetry; on Aristophanes; on Hellenistic poetry;
and on many aspects of Greek literature and culture from the fi rst century B C
to the third century ad. He co- edited (with Ja ś Elsner) Philostratus (Cambridge
University Press, 2009) and (with Lucia Athanassaki) A rchaic and Classical Choral
Song (2011). He is currently completing a commentary on Longus, D aphnis and
Chloe for Cambridge University Press.
Richard Fernando Buxton (Visiting Assistant Professor, Colorado College)
is interested in the history, historiography, and economy of Classical Greece. He
has authored articles on Herodotus, Xenophon, and Athenian coinage.
Paul Christesen (Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College) has research inter-
ests in ancient Greek history (with a particular focus on Sparta), sport history
(including the ancient Olympics), and the relationship between sport and politi-
cal systems. He is the author of Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History
(Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and
Modern Worlds (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is also co- editor, with
Donald Kyle, of T he Wiley-B lackwell Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek
and Roman Antiquity . He is currently working with Paul Cartledge of Cambridge
University on the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World .
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