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Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception
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English
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2022
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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.
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.
Author / Editor information
T. Rood, University of Oxford, UK; M. Tamiolaki, University of Crete and Collaborating Faculty Member of IMS/FORTH, Greece.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Abbreviations
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List of Figures
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Introduction
1 - Part I: New Readings of Xenophon’s Anabasis
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Starting and Restarting the Anabasis
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Killing the King: Cyrus’ Attack on his Brother in Anabasis, and its Reception in Cyropaedia
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Xenophon’s Moral Luck: Crisis and Leadership Opportunity in Anabasis 3
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The Reception and Interpretation of Xenophon’s Discussion with Socrates in the Anabasis (3.1.4–8)
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From the Tigris to the Sea: The Problematic Geography of Anabasis Book 4
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A Universalist Moral Compass: Depicting Greeks and Foreigners in Anabasis 5 and 6
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Xenophon’s Woes in Thrace: The Very Model of a Modern Mercenary Commander?
157 - Part II: Themes in Xenophon’s Anabasis
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Friendship (φιλία) in Xenophon’s Anabasis
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Beyond Xenophon: Other Speakers in Xenophon’s Anabasis
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Rumour and Misrepresentation in Xenophon’s Anabasis
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Emotions and Narrative in Xenophon’s Anabasis: Leaders Handling Negative Emotions
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The Human Body in Xenophon’s Anabasis
287 - Part III: The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis from Antiquity to Modern Times
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Anabasis as Monument: Arrian, Xenophontic Space, and Literary Authority
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Xenophon and Arrian: Aspects of Leadership in their Anabases
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The Anabases of Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’ Charicleia
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The Siren’s Song: Xenophon’s Anabasis in Byzantium
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The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis in the 15th and 16th Centuries
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The Anabasis Illustrated
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Voltaire: Questions on the Anabasis
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Scillus and After: The Historian’s Retreat from Xenophon to Toynbee
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The Anabasis in Paramount’s Promotion of The Warriors (1979): From the Gang Streets to The New York Times
499 - Envoi
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Teaching the Anabasis in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Prospects
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List of Contributors
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General Index
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Index of Key Passages
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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
Keywords for this book
Ancient Greek Historiography; Ancient Greek Political Thought; Socrates and the Socratic circle; Intertextuality
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and students of Classics, ancient historiography, ancient prose (rhetoric and philosophy), reception of antiquity
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