Xenophon: ethical principles and historical enquiry
by Tuplin, Christopher, Hobden, Fiona
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'Staying up late' : Plutarch's reading of Xenophon / Philip Stadter -- The Renaissance reception of Xenophon's Spartan constitution : preliminary observations / Noreen Humble -- A delightful retreat : Xenophon and the picturesque / Tim Rood -- Strauss on Xenophon / David M. John…
Xenophon: ethical principles and historical enquiry
by Tuplin, Christopher, Hobden, Fiona
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The fourth century author Xenophon -- historian, philosopher, man of action - produced an output notable for diversity of content and consistency of moral outlook. This book explores some of the ethical and historical dimensions of this oeuvre.
"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 …