Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception

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Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception

Edited by: Tim Rood and Melina Tamiolaki

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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Volume 134 | Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

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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.

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T. Rood, University of Oxford, UK; M. Tamiolaki, University of Crete and Collaborating Faculty Member of IMS/FORTH, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Introduction Tim Rood and Melina Tamiolaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I: New Readings of Xenophon’s Anabasis
Starting and Restarting the Anabasis John Dillery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
Killing the King: Cyrus’ Attack on his Brother in Anabasis, and its Reception in Cyropaedia Gabriel Danzig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Xenophon’s Moral Luck: Crisis and Leadership Opportunity in Anabasis 3 Carol Atack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
The Reception and Interpretation of Xenophon’s Discussion with Socrates in the Anabasis (3.1.4–8) Louis-André Dorion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	85
From the Tigris to the Sea: The Problematic Geography of Anabasis Book 4 Christopher J. Tuplin and Shane Brennan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
A Universalist Moral Compass: Depicting Greeks and Foreigners in Anabasis 5 and 6 Emily Baragwanath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
Xenophon’s Woes in Thrace: The Very Model of a Modern Mercenary Commander? David Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Part II: Themes in Xenophon’s Anabasis
Friendship (φιλία) in Xenophon’s Anabasis Paul Demont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
Beyond Xenophon: Other Speakers in Xenophon’s Anabasis Roberto Nicolai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Rumour and Misrepresentation in Xenophon’s Anabasis Sarah Brown Ferrario Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Emotions and Narrative in Xenophon’s Anabasis: Leaders Handling Negative Emotions Melina Tamiolaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257
The Human Body in Xenophon’s Anabasis Antonis Tsakmakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
Part III: The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis from Antiquity to Modern Times
Anabasis as Monument: Arrian, Xenophontic Space, and Literary Authority Estelle Strazdins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
Xenophon and Arrian: Aspects of Leadership in their Anabases Nikos Miltsios Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
The Anabases of Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’ Charicleia Ewen Bowie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345
The Siren’s Song: Xenophon’s Anabasis in Byzantium Scott Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367
The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis in the 15th and 16th Centuries Noreen Humble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
The Anabasis Illustrated Tim Rood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	423
Voltaire: Questions on the Anabasis Pierre Pontier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	455
Scillus and After: The Historian’s Retreat from Xenophon to Toynbee Luke Pitcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	477
The Anabasis in Paramount’s Promotion of The Warriors (1979): From the Gang Streets to The New York Times Panayiota Mini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	499
Envoi
Teaching the Anabasis in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Prospects Michael A. Flower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	523
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	531
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	535
Index of Key Passages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	547

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eBook published on:

October 24, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9783110793437

Hardcover published on:

October 24, 2022

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110793376

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

15

Main content:

555

Illustrations:

2

Coloured Illustrations:

8

Tables:

1

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110793437

eBook ISBN: 9783110793437

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110793376

Keywords for this book

Ancient Greek Historiography; Ancient Greek Political Thought; Socrates and the Socratic circle; Intertextuality

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Scholars and students of Classics, ancient historiography, ancient prose (rhetoric and philosophy), reception of antiquity

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Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception

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