Questions of method -- Greece, the new imperial practices, and the reinvention of politics -- Democratic non-existence -- The contemporary impotence -- Eleven points inspired by the situation in Greece -- Eleven melancholic points regarding the development of the Greek situation…
"Over the last six years, Greece has provided the world with 'an open-air political lesson.' The country’s deep economic and social crisis has exposed the fundamental contradictions of the European Union, and indeed the capitalist world as a whole. It has been a test case for mo…
"This book seeks to understand Xenophon as an elite Athenian writing largely for an elite Athenian audience in the first half of the fourth century B.C. It argues that Xenophon calls on men of his own class to set aside their assumptions of superiority based on birth or wealth a…
"This book seeks to understand Xenophon as an elite Athenian writing largely for an elite Athenian audience in the first half of the fourth century B.C. It argues that Xenophon calls on men of his own class to set aside their assumptions of superiority based on birth or wealth a…
Introduction : Xenophon the Athenian -- Athens in crisis in the Hellenica -- Politics and the gentleman in the Memorabilia -- Work, money, and the gentleman in the Oeconomicus -- The education of Callias -- Xenophon as expert, adviser, and reformer in the Hipparchus and Poroi --…
"This book seeks to understand Xenophon as an elite Athenian writing largely for an elite Athenian audience in the first half of the fourth century B.C. It argues that Xenophon calls on men of his own class to set aside their assumptions of superiority based on birth or wealth a…
"This book seeks to understand Xenophon as an elite Athenian writing largely for an elite Athenian audience in the first half of the fourth century B.C. It argues that Xenophon calls on men of his own class to set aside their assumptions of superiority based on birth or wealth a…