Xenophon's Anabasis

A Socratic History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvShane Brennan

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Xenophon's Anabasis has engaged and entertained readers from antiquity to the present day. Through his telling of the story of Cyrus the Younger's attempt on the Persian throne and its aftermath, Xenophon integrates many of the prominent themes and concerns in his writings, including leadership, panhellenism, Sparta and apologia. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, Brennan offers a fresh reading of the text which originates in a broad-ranging consideration of Xenophon's aims in writing the book some thirty years after the event. The central argument brings the presence of Socrates into relief and demonstrates how the author, representing himself in the story as a model pupil of the philosopher, perpetuates Socratic teachings and values through 'Xenophon's' leadership. Ultimately, Anabasis is revealed to be a 'Socratic history', a narrative rooted in a historical event or period and in which the author embeds a reflection of the philosopher and his values.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-05-31
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474489881

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Shane Brennan is Associate Professor of History and Classics at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. From 2016-22 he taught at the American University in Dubai, UAE, and from 2011-16 at Mardin Artuklu University in the south-east of Türkiye. He is co-editor of The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis (Pantheon Books, 2021) and Turkey and the Politics of National Identity (IB Tauris, 2014) and author of In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand: A Journey on foot through Turkey, Syria and Iraq (Robert Hale, 2005).

Brennan offers a persuasive and original framework for understanding the Anabasis, one that will stimulate further debate on Xenophon’s position as both historian and philosopher... The result is a richer, more complex picture of an author long dismissed as a superficial thinker. This book will not end discussions about the nature of the Anabasis, but it has ensured that they will henceforth have to contend with the possibility that Xenophon was, in his own way, a philosopher armed.