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Anabasis as Monument: Arrian, Xenophontic Space, and Literary Authority

  • Estelle Strazdins
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Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception

Abstract

This chapter concentrates on Arrian’s apparent refurbishment of a monument to Hadrian at Trapezus on the Black Sea that opens his Periplus (1.1- 4) and Alexander’s interaction with Achilles’ grave at Troy in his Anabasis in the context of both Arrian’s ‘Second Preface’ (1.12.1-5) and the Ten Thousand’s thanks-giving cairn on Mt. Theches that marks their first sight of the sea in Xenophon’s Anabasis (4.7.24). I demonstrate that a) there is a relationship between these Arrian passages that hinges on Xenophon’s Anabasis, and b) Arrian exploits the materiality, spatiality, and temporality of monuments, combined with their semantic fluidity, to assert his literary authority over Xenophon, spatial authority over Trapezus, personal authority over Hadrian’s image and Alexander’s memory, and to muse on the fickleness of reception by posterity.

Abstract

This chapter concentrates on Arrian’s apparent refurbishment of a monument to Hadrian at Trapezus on the Black Sea that opens his Periplus (1.1- 4) and Alexander’s interaction with Achilles’ grave at Troy in his Anabasis in the context of both Arrian’s ‘Second Preface’ (1.12.1-5) and the Ten Thousand’s thanks-giving cairn on Mt. Theches that marks their first sight of the sea in Xenophon’s Anabasis (4.7.24). I demonstrate that a) there is a relationship between these Arrian passages that hinges on Xenophon’s Anabasis, and b) Arrian exploits the materiality, spatiality, and temporality of monuments, combined with their semantic fluidity, to assert his literary authority over Xenophon, spatial authority over Trapezus, personal authority over Hadrian’s image and Alexander’s memory, and to muse on the fickleness of reception by posterity.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements VII
  3. Contents IX
  4. Abbreviations XIII
  5. List of Figures XV
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I: New Readings of Xenophon’s Anabasis
  8. Starting and Restarting the Anabasis 13
  9. Killing the King: Cyrus’ Attack on his Brother in Anabasis, and its Reception in Cyropaedia 43
  10. Xenophon’s Moral Luck: Crisis and Leadership Opportunity in Anabasis 3 63
  11. The Reception and Interpretation of Xenophon’s Discussion with Socrates in the Anabasis (3.1.4–8) 85
  12. From the Tigris to the Sea: The Problematic Geography of Anabasis Book 4 105
  13. A Universalist Moral Compass: Depicting Greeks and Foreigners in Anabasis 5 and 6 131
  14. Xenophon’s Woes in Thrace: The Very Model of a Modern Mercenary Commander? 157
  15. Part II: Themes in Xenophon’s Anabasis
  16. Friendship (φιλία) in Xenophon’s Anabasis 183
  17. Beyond Xenophon: Other Speakers in Xenophon’s Anabasis 205
  18. Rumour and Misrepresentation in Xenophon’s Anabasis 233
  19. Emotions and Narrative in Xenophon’s Anabasis: Leaders Handling Negative Emotions 257
  20. The Human Body in Xenophon’s Anabasis 287
  21. Part III: The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis from Antiquity to Modern Times
  22. Anabasis as Monument: Arrian, Xenophontic Space, and Literary Authority 311
  23. Xenophon and Arrian: Aspects of Leadership in their Anabases 329
  24. The Anabases of Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’ Charicleia 345
  25. The Siren’s Song: Xenophon’s Anabasis in Byzantium 367
  26. The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis in the 15th and 16th Centuries 395
  27. The Anabasis Illustrated 423
  28. Voltaire: Questions on the Anabasis 455
  29. Scillus and After: The Historian’s Retreat from Xenophon to Toynbee 477
  30. The Anabasis in Paramount’s Promotion of The Warriors (1979): From the Gang Streets to The New York Times 499
  31. Envoi
  32. Teaching the Anabasis in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Prospects 523
  33. List of Contributors 531
  34. General Index 535
  35. Index of Key Passages 547
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110793437-014

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements VII
  3. Contents IX
  4. Abbreviations XIII
  5. List of Figures XV
  6. Introduction 1
  7. Part I: New Readings of Xenophon’s Anabasis
  8. Starting and Restarting the Anabasis 13
  9. Killing the King: Cyrus’ Attack on his Brother in Anabasis, and its Reception in Cyropaedia 43
  10. Xenophon’s Moral Luck: Crisis and Leadership Opportunity in Anabasis 3 63
  11. The Reception and Interpretation of Xenophon’s Discussion with Socrates in the Anabasis (3.1.4–8) 85
  12. From the Tigris to the Sea: The Problematic Geography of Anabasis Book 4 105
  13. A Universalist Moral Compass: Depicting Greeks and Foreigners in Anabasis 5 and 6 131
  14. Xenophon’s Woes in Thrace: The Very Model of a Modern Mercenary Commander? 157
  15. Part II: Themes in Xenophon’s Anabasis
  16. Friendship (φιλία) in Xenophon’s Anabasis 183
  17. Beyond Xenophon: Other Speakers in Xenophon’s Anabasis 205
  18. Rumour and Misrepresentation in Xenophon’s Anabasis 233
  19. Emotions and Narrative in Xenophon’s Anabasis: Leaders Handling Negative Emotions 257
  20. The Human Body in Xenophon’s Anabasis 287
  21. Part III: The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis from Antiquity to Modern Times
  22. Anabasis as Monument: Arrian, Xenophontic Space, and Literary Authority 311
  23. Xenophon and Arrian: Aspects of Leadership in their Anabases 329
  24. The Anabases of Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’ Charicleia 345
  25. The Siren’s Song: Xenophon’s Anabasis in Byzantium 367
  26. The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis in the 15th and 16th Centuries 395
  27. The Anabasis Illustrated 423
  28. Voltaire: Questions on the Anabasis 455
  29. Scillus and After: The Historian’s Retreat from Xenophon to Toynbee 477
  30. The Anabasis in Paramount’s Promotion of The Warriors (1979): From the Gang Streets to The New York Times 499
  31. Envoi
  32. Teaching the Anabasis in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Prospects 523
  33. List of Contributors 531
  34. General Index 535
  35. Index of Key Passages 547
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