General Index

Chapters in this book

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