{"product_id":"xenophon-oxford-readings-in-classical-studies-9780199216185","title":"Xenophon Oxford Readings in Classical Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[a] fine selection of essays ... offer[s] further insight into his literary skills as well as a good sense of the cultural interest of Xenophon as a historical figure in his own right * Tim Rood, Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003etremendously 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. * Jeremy Trevett, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction ; I. GENDER ; 1. Slavery in the Greek Domestic Economy in the Light of Xenophon's Oeconomicus ; 2. Xenophon's Foreign Wives ; 3. Xenophon on Male Love ; II. DEMOCRACY ; 4. Xenophon's Programme in the Poroi ; 5. Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style ; 6. The Seductions of the Gaze: Socrates and his Girlfriends ; III. SOCRATES ; 7. Xenophon's Socrates as Teacher ; 8. Xenophon's Socrates as Dialectician ; 9. The Dancing Socrates and the Laughing Xenophon, or The Other Symposium ; 10. The Straussian Interpretation of Xenophon: The Paradigmatic Case of Memorabilia IV.4 ; IV. CYROPAEDIA ; 11. The Idea of Imperial Monarchy in Xenophon's Cyropaedia ; 12. Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia ; 13. The Question of the Good Life. The Meeting of Cyrus and Croesus in Xenophon ; 14. Xenophon's Cyropaedia and the Hellenistic Novel ; 15. The death of Cyrus. Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a Source for Iranian History ; V. HISTORICAL WRITING ; 16. The Sources for the Spartan Debacle at Haliartus ; 17. Xenophon's Anabasis ; 18. You can't go home again: Displacement and Identity in Xenophon's Anabasis ; 19. Irony and the arrator in Xenophon's Anabasis ; 20. Interventions and Citations in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766977003863,"sku":"9780199216185","price":87.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199216185.jpg?v=1758711939","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/xenophon-oxford-readings-in-classical-studies-9780199216185","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}