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Zusatztext tremendously accomplished pieces of scholarship, and will be of permanent value to all who work on this fascinating text, or on fourth-century Athens more generally. Informationen zum Autor Vivienne J. Gray is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland. Klappentext A selection of important recent articles on Xenophon which will serve as an introduction to his writings by presenting current debates about the way in which to read them. A specially written introduction by Vivienne J. Gray places the articles in the context of Xenophon's life and works. Zusammenfassung Xenophon's many and varied works represent a major source of information about the ancient Greek world: for example, about culture, politics, social life and history in the fourth century BC, Socrates, horses and hunting with dogs, the Athenian economy, and Sparta. However, there has been controversy about how his works should be read. This selection of significant modern critical essays will introduce readers to the wide range of his writing, the debates it has inspired, and the interpretative methodologies that have been used. A specially written Introduction by Vivienne J. Gray offers a survey of Xenophon's works, an account of his life with respect to them, a brief discussion of modern readings, reference to modern scholarship since the original publication of the articles, and a critical summary of their content. Several articles have been translated for the first time from French and German, and all quotations have been translated into English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Status and Gender 1: Sarah B. Pomeroy: Slavery in the Greek Domestic Economy in the Light of Xenophon's Oeconomicus 2: Emily Baragwanath: Xenophon's Foreign Wives 3: Clifford Hindley: Xenophon on Male Love II. Democracy 4: Philippe Gauthier: Xenophon's Programme in the Poroi 5: Steven Johnstone: Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style 6: Simon Goldhill: The Seductions of the Gaze: Socrates and his Girlfriends III. Socrates 7: Donald R. Morrison: Xenophon's Socrates as Teacher 8: Andreas Patzer: Xenophon's Socrates as Dialectician 9: Bernhard Huss: The Dancing Socrates and the Laughing Xenophon, or The Other Symposium 10: Louis-Andre Dorion: The Straussian Interpretation of Xenophon: The Paradigmatic Case of Memorabilia IV.4 IV. Cyropaedia 11: Pierre Carlier: The Idea of Imperial Monarchy in Xenophon's Cyropaedia 12: Philip Stadter: Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia 13: E. Lefevre: The Question of the Good Life. The Meeting of Cyrus and Croesus in Xenophon 14: Michael Reichel: Xenophon's Cyropaedia and the Hellenistic Novel 15: H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg: The death of Cyrus. Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a Source for Iranian History V. Historical Writing 16: H. D. Westlake: The Sources for the Spartan Debacle at Haliartus 17: Hartmut Erbse: Xenophon's Anabasis 18: John Ma: You can't go home again: Displacement and Identity in Xenophon's Anabasis 19: Patrick J. Bradley: Irony and the Narrator in Xenophon's Anabasis 20: Vivienne J. Gray: Interventions and Citations in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis ...
