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Xenophon and Sparta: New Perspectives

by: Powell, A. Richer, N.

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Category: Ancient Sparta / Laconia
Code: 25733
ISBN-13: 9781905125371 / 978-1-905125-37-1
ISBN-10: 1905125372 / 1-905125-37-2
Publisher: The Classical Press of Wales
Publication Date: 2020
Publication Place: Swansea
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 378
Book Condition: New

Xenophon has long been identified as a chief contemporary source, if not the chief source, for the history of classical Sparta. But his information has commonly been treated in restricted ways. Scholars who have studied Xenophon's oeuvre have tended to apply a knowledge of Athenian history and of general Greek literature rather than a specialist knowledge of Sparta. And specialist students of Sparta have commonly `mined' elements of Xenophon's work without sufficient regard either for the author's general characteristics and biases or for the variety of his literary genres.

In this volume, 12 internationally-recognised experts on Sparta examine the quality of Xenophon's information on central topics of Laconian history, in the light of the author's political, literary and intellectual characteristics. This book is the first of a series in which the Classical Press of Wales will apply to Spartan history the approach it is already using for the history of Rome's revolutionary era: focusing in turn on each of the main sources on which historians depend, and analysing with a combination of historical and literary methods.

This book is the first of a series in which the Classical Press of Wales will apply to Spartan history the approach it is already using for the history of Rome's revolutionary era: focusing in turn on each of the main sources on which historians depend, and analysing with a combination of historical and literary methods.

 

Contents:
Introductions and acknowledgements / Anton Powell and Nicolas Richer
'One little skytalē' : Xenophon, truth-telling in his major works, and Spartan imperialism / Anton Powell
The Lacedaemonian model in Xenophon's non-historical works (excluding the Cyropaedia) / Nicolas Richer (trans. William E. Higgins)
Xenophon's portrayal of Sparta in the Hellenica, the Lakedaimonion Politeia and the Agesilaos / Giovanna Daverio Rocchi (trans. Anton Powell)
Sparta and the Cyropaedia : the correct use of analogies / Vincent Azoulay (trans. Maxime Shelledy)
The communication of history in Xenophon : the art of narration, the control of reception and happiness / Gianluca Cuniberti (trans. Robert T. Valgenti)
Defining the difference : Xenophon and Spartan law / Vivienne Gray
Xenophon and the myth of Lykourgos / Ephraim David (trans. Anton Powell)
Foxes at home, lions abroad : Spartan commanders in Xenophon's Anabasis / Ellen Millender
Xenophon and the Spartan economy / Thomas J. Figueira
True history : Xenophon's Agesilaos and the encomiastic genre / Noreen Humble
Xenophon presenting Agesilaos : the case of Phleious / Pierre Pontier (trans. William E. Higgins)
Xenophon and the selection of the hippeis (Lak. Pol. 4.1-6) / Jean Ducat

xv, 378 pages ; 24 cm
 

 

 
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Xenophon and Sparta: New Perspectives

by: Powell, A. Richer, N.

  • ISBN-13: 9781905125371 / 978-1-905125-37-1
  • ISBN-03: 1905125372 / 1-905125-37-2
  • The Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2020

Price: 82,00 EURO

(in stock)