Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception / / ed. by Tim Rood, Melina Tamiolaki.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Atack, Carol,; Baragwanath, Emily,; Bowie, Ewen,; Brennan, Shane,; Brown Ferrario, Sarah,; Danzig, Gabriel,; Demont, Paul,; Dillery, John,; Dorion, Louis-André,; Flower, Michael A.,; Humble, Noreen,; Kennedy, Scott,; Miltsios, Nikos,; Mini, Panayiota,; Nicolai, Roberto,; Pitcher, Luke,; Pontier, Pierre,; Rood, Tim,; Strazdins, Estelle,; Tamiolaki, Melina,; Thomas, David,; Tsakmakis, Antonis,; Tuplin, Christopher J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Rood, Tim,; Tamiolaki, Melina,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 134
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 555 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I: New Readings of Xenophon’s Anabasis -- Starting and Restarting the Anabasis -- Killing the King: Cyrus’ Attack on his Brother in Anabasis, and its Reception in Cyropaedia -- Xenophon’s Moral Luck: Crisis and Leadership Opportunity in Anabasis 3 -- The Reception and Interpretation of Xenophon’s Discussion with Socrates in the Anabasis (3.1.4–8) -- From the Tigris to the Sea: The Problematic Geography of Anabasis Book 4 -- A Universalist Moral Compass: Depicting Greeks and Foreigners in Anabasis 5 and 6 -- Xenophon’s Woes in Thrace: The Very Model of a Modern Mercenary Commander? -- Part II: Themes in Xenophon’s Anabasis -- Friendship (φιλία) in Xenophon’s Anabasis -- Beyond Xenophon: Other Speakers in Xenophon’s Anabasis -- Rumour and Misrepresentation in Xenophon’s Anabasis -- Emotions and Narrative in Xenophon’s Anabasis: Leaders Handling Negative Emotions -- The Human Body in Xenophon’s Anabasis -- Part III: The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis from Antiquity to Modern Times -- Anabasis as Monument: Arrian, Xenophontic Space, and Literary Authority -- Xenophon and Arrian: Aspects of Leadership in their Anabases -- The Anabases of Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’ Charicleia -- The Siren’s Song: Xenophon’s Anabasis in Byzantium -- The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis in the 15th and 16th Centuries -- The Anabasis Illustrated -- Voltaire: Questions on the Anabasis -- Scillus and After: The Historian’s Retreat from Xenophon to Toynbee -- The Anabasis in Paramount’s Promotion of The Warriors (1979): From the Gang Streets to The New York Times -- Envoi -- Teaching the Anabasis in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Prospects -- List of Contributors -- General Index -- Index of Key Passages