Xenophon: Ethical Principles and Historical Enquiry

Fiona Hobden is Senior Lecturer in Greek Culture at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought (forthcoming), and also works on aspects of Athenian culture and on Classical Reception.Christopher Tuplin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively in the fields of Classical Greek history and Achaemenid Studies, with a special interest in both cases in the work of Xenophon.Contributors: Emily Baragwanath, Shane Brennan, Gabriel Danzig, Louis-André Dorion, Sarah Ferrario, Thomas Figueira, Dustin Gish, Rosie Harman, Lisa Hau, John Henderson, Noreen Humble, Joseph Jansen, David Johnson, Louis L'Allier, Ellen Millender, Pierre Pontier, Timothy Rood, Guido Schepens, Stefan Schorn, Philip Stadter, Michael Stokes, Melina Tamiolaki, Robin Waterfield

• CONTENTSPreface ............................................................................................................................. ivAbbreviations................................................................................................................... vIntroduction....................................................................................................................... 1Fiona Hobden & Christopher Tuplin1. ‘Staying up late’. Plutarch’s reading of Xenophon .................................................30Philip Stadter2. The Renaissance reception of Xenophon’s Spartan Constitution. Preliminary observations ..............................................................................................................45Noreen Humble3.A delightful retreat. Xenophon and the picturesque .................................................72Tim Rood4.Strauss’s Xenophon...................................................................................................99David Johnson5.Defending dēmokratia. Athenian justice and the trial of the Arginusae generals in Xenophon’s Hellenica..........................................................................................129Dustin Gish6.Timocrates’ mission to Greece -- once again...........................................................169Guido Schepens7.Three defences of Socrates. Relative chronology, politics and religion...................192Michael Stokes8.Xenophon on Socrates’ trial and death ....................................................................210Robin Waterfield9.Mind the gap. A ‘snow lacuna’ in Xenophon’s Anabasis?.......................................238Shane Brennan10.Historical agency and self-awareness in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis........262 Sarah Brown Ferrario11. Spartan ‘friendship’ and Xenophon’s crafting of the Anabasis................................ 290 Ellen Millender12. A spectacle of Greekness. Panhellenism and the visual in Xenophon’s Agesilaus....................................................................................................................328Rosie Harman13.The nature and status of sophia in the Memorabilia..................................................349Louis-André Dorion14.Why did Xenophon write the last chapter of the Cynegeticus?..................................367 Louis L’Allier 15.Best of the Persians. Benevolence, self-interest and the ‘ironic’ reading of Cyropaedia.................................................................................................................384 Gabriel Danzig16.Pheraulas is the answer, what was the question? (You cannot be Cyrus.).................414John Henderson17.Virtue and leadership in Xenophon. Ideal leaders or ideal losers?.............................432Melina Tamiolaki18.Does pride go before a fall? Xenophon on arrogant pride..........................................454Lisa Irene Hau19.Xenophon and the Persian kiss....................................................................................470Pierre Pontier20.The wonder of freedom. Xenophon on slavery...........................................................487Emily Baragwanath21.Economic thought and economic fact in the works of Xenophon........................ .....514Thomas J. Figueira22.The philosophical background of Xenophon’s Poroi.................................................532Stefan Schorn23.Strangers incorporated. Outsiders in Xenophon’s Poroi............................................560Joseph JansenIndex............................................................................................................................