Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception /

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

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 thro...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 555 p.)
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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

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