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Xenophon's only true Socratic discourse, the Oeconomicus is a dialogue between Socrates and a gentleman-farmer on the art of household management and the art of farming as practiced on the gentleman's estate. It is generally acknowledged to be the oldest surviving work devoted to "economics," and it constitutes the classic statement of "economic" thought in ancient Greece.

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume constitutes the first large-scale collaborative reflection on Xenophon's Anabasis, gathering experts on Greek historiography and Xenophon. It is structured in three sections: the first section provides a linear reading of the Anabasis through chapters on select episodes (from Book 1 through Book 7), including the opening, Cyrus' characterisation, the meeting of Socrates and Xenophon, Xenophon's leadership, the marches through Armenia and along the Black Sea coast and the service under Seuthes in Thrace.The second section offers an in-depth exploration of hitherto overlooked recurrent themes. Based on new approaches and scholarly trends, it focuses on topics such as the concept of friendship, the speeches of characters other than Xenophon, the suffering of the human body, the role of rumour and misrepresentation, and the depiction of emotions.The third section offers a more thorough investigation of the manifold reception of this work (in Antiquity, Byzantium, Renaissance, modern period, in cinema studies and illustrations).Finally, in acknowledgement of the Anabasis' long history as a pedagogical text, the volume contains an envoi on the importance and benefits of teaching Xenophon and the Anabasis, more specifically. 572 pp. Englisch

This is the first comprehensive commentary on a section of Xenophon's Anabasis in English for almost a century. It provides up-to-date guidance on literary, historical and cultural aspects of the Anabasis and will help undergraduate students to read Greek better. It also incorporates recent advances in Xenophontic scholarship and Greek linguistics, showcasing in particular Xenophon's linguistic innovations and varied style. Advanced students and professional scholars will also profit from the sustained attention which this commentary devotes to Xenophon's varied narrative strategies and to the reception of episodes from Anabasis III in antiquity. The introduction and commentary show that Xenophon is just as important (if not more so) to the development of Greek historiography, and of Greek prose in general, as Herodotus and Thucydides.

An essential text for understanding Socrates, Xenophon's Memorabilia is the compelling tribute of an affectionate student to his teacher, providing a rare firsthand account of Socrates' life and philosophy. The Memorabilia is invaluable both as a work of philosophy in its own right and as a complement to the study of Plato's dialogues. The longest of Xenophon's four Socratic works, it is particularly revealing about the differences between Socrates and his philosophical predecessors.

Born in the latter half of the fifth century B.C. near Athens, Xenophon enjoyed the best of educational and social advantages and for a time was a pupil and friend of Socrates. In 401 B.C., however, he was led by promises of adventure and fortune to join the ill-fated expedition of Cyrus against his brother, Artaxerxes the Second of Persia. After Cyrus lost his life and the other officers were murdered, Xenophon became one of the leading spirits of the army, eventually exacting revenge on the Persians, then retiring to Scillus, in Elis, to a life of sporting and literary activity. It was there that he composed the Anabasis, or "Up-Country March," a painstaking but brightly written account of the expedition and his life as a Greek soldier that has endured through the ages. A clearly written historical and literary introduction, copious notes to the text, and a complete vocabulary make this book invaluable to beginning and advanced students alike.

Composee autour de 370 avant J.-C., l'Economique est une source importante pour l'histoire sociale et intellectuelle d'Athenes a l'epoque classique et a introduit un terme d'avenir dans la pensee occidentale. Dans ce traite socratique, Xenophon imagine un dialogue entre Socrate et l'un de ses disciples, Critobule. Ce dernier souhaite savoir comment gerer le domaine (oikos) qu'il a herite de son pere, car il lui faut faire face a des depenses considerables au service de la cite. Socrate, qui ne possede qu'un bien fort modeste, lui rapporte alors la conversation qu'il a eue avec un certain Ischomaque, un grand proprietaire terrien qui fait travailler sur ses terres de nombreux esclaves. Ischomaque, en effet, lui a enseigne les raisons de ses succes de gestionnaire: d'abord l'education qu'il a donnee a son epouse, puis la maniere de traiter les esclaves pour en obtenir le meilleur rendement, enfin les diverses operations que doit accomplir un bon agriculteur. L'essentiel, c'est de faire preuve des qualites d'organisateur qui sont aussi celles du bon chef de guerre ou encore du roi des Perses. oikonomike, l'art de bien gerer un domaine, est ainsi l'un des aspects de l'art de commander.

Each page of this volume contains 10 lines of Greek from Xenophon's Anabasis Book 4 (E.C. Marchant's 1904 Oxford Classical Text) with all corresponding vocabulary and grammatical notes arranged below. Once readers have memorized the core vocabulary list, they will be able to read the Greek and consult all relevant vocabulary and commentary without turning a page. This volume also contains Greek-only text pages for teachers who want their students to review the Greek in class without access to vocabulary or notes.

This book is a fresh study of the fourth century B.C. Greek adventurer, writer, and student of Socrates, Xenophon. An innovating author of many guises, an important source for the history of his time, a wit and a philosopher, he no longer enjoys the reputation he once did. Suggesting that such a radical de-valuation is more a reflection on nineteenth- and twentieth-century attitudes and scholarship than on the worth of Xenophon, the author in this book attempts to reassert Xenophon's rightful position by offering a close, literary-historical reading of all of Xenophon's writings and by focusing in this process on the alluring reticence and ironic subtlety many have often failed to appreciate before offering what turn out to be their too hasty criticisms. It is hoped that this study will help to bring about the realization that Xenophon, when properly read and read without preconceptions, may yet prove an invaluable guide to the development of Greek thought in general and the world of fourth-century Greece in particular. Xenophon emerges as one of the last great representatives of that civilization which reached its height in Athens, and it is in this context that he is best understood, not, as so often previously, against the Peloponnesian and especially Spartan background where he had friends and where he spent a long exile.

Each page of this volume contains 10 lines of Greek from Xenophon's Anabasis Book 4 (E.C. Marchant's 1904 Oxford Classical Text) with all corresponding vocabulary and grammatical notes arranged below. Once readers have memorized the core vocabulary list, they will be able to read the Greek and consult all relevant vocabulary and commentary without turning a page. This volume also contains Greek-only text pages for teachers who want their students to review the Greek in class without access to vocabulary or notes.

Xenophon’s only true Socratic discourse, the Oeconomicus, is a dialogue between Socrates and a gentleman-farmer on the art of household management and the art of farming as practiced on a gentleman’s estate. It is generally acknowledged to be the oldest surviving work devoted to "economics," and it constitutes the classic statement of "economic" thought in ancient Greece. The dialogue examines the roles of husband and wife in the household and the division of labor between them, and considers the duties of the farm steward and the housekeeper. It discusses the goals of efficient management and the means for attaining these goals.

Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical narratives--as well as the most important autobiographical work--to have survived from ancient Greece. It tells the story of Cyrus, a young and charismatic Persian prince, who in 401 BC enlisted more than ten thousand Greek mercenaries in an attempt to seize the vast Persian empire for himself. Cyrus was killed in a great battle, most of the Greek commanders subsequently fell victim to treachery, and an Athenian aristocrat by the name of Xenophon found himself in the unexpected position of taking charge and leading the Greeks from the vicinity of Babylon in modern Iraq back to the Greek cities in Turkey. This book both places the Anabasis in its historical and literary context and, by employing a variety of critical methods, opens up for the reader different ways of interpreting its major themes. Interrelated chapters investigate Xenophon's self-representation as a model leader, his possible didactic and apologetic purposes for writing, the generic expectations of his contemporary audience, the factual accuracy of the Anabasis, and the ways in which the gods are depicted as intervening in human affairs. This book unveils the literary artistry and narrative strategies that have gone into shaping one of the greatest survival stories of all time.

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As hunting generates such fierce debate in Britain today, it seems an appropriate moment to examine the two best classical works on the subject. For both authors hunting was primarily for hares with hounds.

English summary: Critical edition and French translation of the second volume of Xenophons Memorabilia. Ten years in the making, this edition offers a much needed scholarly renewal of Xenophons representation of Socrates, with copious notes, commentaries, and critical apparatus. French description: Pres de dix ans apres la publication du premier volume, tres remarque par la critique aussi bien pour la qualite de son texte grec (on peut dire qu'il s'agissait de la premiere edition du texte des Memorables enfin critique, ou tous les manuscrits ont ete pris en compte et traites selon leur valeur) que pour l'abondance et la nouveaute de son commentaire, nous avons le plaisir de presenter, enfin, l'important volume en deux parties qui marque l'achevement de cette edition. Les principes d'edition sont demeures inchanges: un texte grec sobrement etabli sur la base d'une connaissance directe de toute la tradition (pour la premiere fois dans l'histoire de l'edition de ce texte); une traduction tres soignee, beaucoup plus precise que les precedentes; un commentaire considerable, ou toute la litterature socratique est prise soigneusement en compte. On sait la these de L. A. Dorion: le Socrate de Xenophon est radicalement different de celui de Platon, et il ne sert de rien de tenter de diminuer les differences entre les deux representations pour tenter de produire un personnage composite, cense representer le personnage historique de Platon. Le commentaire des trois derniers livres se poursuit sur cette ligne et debusque impitoyablement toutes les solutions concordistes . Ce deuxieme et dernier volume est complete d'une bibliographie de tous les travaux recents ou est discute le temoignage de Socrate, et de tres abondants index rerum, nominum qui permettront de retrouver aisement les richesses de cette edition exceptionnelle. La collaboration avec M. Bandini se poursuivra par la realisation d'autres editions de textes de Xenophon.

This book is a fresh study of the fourth century B.C. Greek adventurer, writer, and student of Socrates, Xenophon. An innovating author of many guises, an important source for the history of his time, a wit and a philosopher, he no longer enjoys the reputation he once did. Suggesting that such a radical de-valuation is more a reflection on nineteenth- and twentieth-century attitudes and scholarship than on the worth of Xenophon, the author in this book attempts to reassert Xenophon's rightful position by offering a close, literary-historical reading of all of Xenophon's writings and by focusing in this process on the alluring reticence and ironic subtlety many have often failed to appreciate before offering what turn out to be their too hasty criticisms. It is hoped that this study will help to bring about the realization that Xenophon, when properly read and read without preconceptions, may yet prove an invaluable guide to the development of Greek thought in general and the world of fourth-century Greece in particular. Xenophon emerges as one of the last great representatives of that civilization which reached its height in Athens, and it is in this context that he is best understood, not, as so often previously, against the Peloponnesian and especially Spartan background where he had friends and where he spent a long exile.