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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 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. 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 arrator in Xenophon's Anabasis 20: Vivienne J. Gray: Interventions and Citations in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis ...