Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Techniques
6. Chapter 1 Xenophon’s Expository Techniques and their Application to Cyropaedia 23
7. Chapter 2 An Empire of Discourse: The Paraklētikos Logos at Cyropaedia 3.3.43–45 as an Intergeneric Dialogue 37
8. Chapter 3 The Narrator of the Cyropaedia: Making Cyrus Ideal 49
9. Chapter 4 The Different World of the Cyropaedia 59
10. Part II: Themes
11. Chapter 5 Cyrus and the Ambiguities of Power 69
12. Chapter 6 The Power of Love or the Love for Power: Thoughts on Cyrus’s Humanity 83
13. Chapter 7 Cyrus’s Magnetism 91
14. Chapter 8 Is Cyrus Really a Terrifying Tyrant? 99
15. Chapter 9 Cyrus’s Manufactured Consent 107
16. Part III: Passages
17. Chapter 10 Xenophon’s Cyrus and Hunting in Paradise 117
18. Chapter 11 Cyrus Among the Centaurs, or Why Not to Neglect the Ethico-Political Consequences of Technological Transformation 133
19. Chapter 12 Rereading the Pantheia Story: Erōs and Politics in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia 147
20. Chapter 13 Blepōn nomos (Cyropaedia 8.1.21–22) 155
21. Chapter 14 What’s Funny About Pheraulas? 167
22. Chapter 15 Fathers, Sons and Philosophy 177
23. Chapter 16 The Last Days and Deathbed Speech of Xenophon’s Cyrus (Education of Cyrus 8.7) 185
24. Chapter 17 Honoured Above All Others: Cyrus’s Deliberate Destruction of the Persian Empire in the Cyropaedia 197
25. Part IV: Comparisons
26. Chapter 18 Xenophon and Tyranny in the Cyropaedia: A Comparative View 207
27. Chapter 19 How to and Why Not: Xenophon’s Views on Leadership and Excellence of Stock 217
28. Chapter 20 Xenophon’s Cyrus and the End of the Oeconomicus (21.10–12) 229
29. Chapter 21 Xenophon’s Cyrus as Glaucon’s Perfectly Unjust Man 241
30. Chapter 22 Tragedy and the Cyropaedia 251
31. Chapter 23 ‘An absolute heroicall poem’: Epic and Empire in Early Modern English Readings of the Cyropaedia 265
32. List of Contributors
33. Bibliography
34. Index 297