Xenophon on Violence /

Xenophon on Violence / / ed. by Aggelos Kapellos.

This volume examines the issue of violence in Xenophon’s works, who lived in circumstances of war for many years. All the papers address issues of violence from different aspects. The exclusive focus on this issue is justified, since no previous detailed study exists on the subject. Most of the chap...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bearzot, Cinzia,
Burliga, Bogdan,
Crick, Nathan,
Foster, Edith,
Harris, Edward,
Kapellos, Aggelos,
Pownall, Frances,
Rhodes, P. J.,
Tuci, Paolo A.,
Wolpert, Andrew,
HerausgeberIn:
Kapellos, Aggelos,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 88
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 204 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • The notion of violence (bia, hybris) in Xenophon’s work
  • “Apronoētos Orgē”: the Role of Anger in Xenophon’s Vision of History
  • Lawlessness and Violence in Decision- Making in Xenophon’s Hellenica
  • Violence and Civil Strife in Xenophon’s Hellenica
  • Minor Infantry Defeats and Spartan Deaths in Xenophon’s Hellenica
  • Violence and the State in Xenophon: A Study of Three Passages
  • The Rhetoric of Violence in Xenophon’s Anabasis
  • Xenophon’s βίαιος διδάσκαλος: Thinking War and Empire in the Cyropaedia
  • The Greek reaction to the slaughter of the Athenian captives at Aegospotami and Xenophon’s Hellenica
  • Xenophon on the Violence of the Thirty
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Sources
  • General Index

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