Xenophon (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) by Vivienne J. Gray

Xenophon (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) by Vivienne J. Gray

By Vivienne J. Gray

Xenophon's many and sundry works signify an immense resource of knowledge concerning the historical Greek international: for instance, approximately tradition, politics, social lifestyles and heritage within the fourth century BC, Socrates, horses and searching with canine, the Athenian economic system, and Sparta. besides the fact that, there was controversy approximately how his works can be learn. this option of important sleek serious essays will introduce readers to the big variety of his writing, the debates it has encouraged, and the interpretative methodologies which were used. A particularly written advent by way of Vivienne J. grey deals a survey of Xenophon's works, an account of his existence with admire to them, a quick dialogue of recent readings, connection with sleek scholarship because the unique booklet of the articles, and a severe precis in their content material. a number of articles were translated for the 1st time from French and German, and all quotations were translated into English.

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60 He raises the question of Xenophon’s humour, and the irony conducive to virtue. The focus is Socrates’ playful claim to be a dancer, which is serious in its encouragement of physical development. Huss recognizes the dissonance between the positive way in which Xenophon presents some of his characters and the scandal of their later careers; but this is put down to the desire to present a Golden Age in which Socrates made his associates behave well, rather than an ironical sabotage of their characters.

Although tragic poets had portrayed the degradation of captive women who were compelled to sleep with victors who had destroyed their cities and families, Xenophon is the Wrst to state, as a general principle, that slave women were reluctant to have intercourse with their masters, and to note that some men might prefer not to rape such women. Finally, Xenophon’s views on slaves are consistent with his ideas about women and non-Greeks. In the Oeconomicus, there is no natural hierarchy among human beings according to gender, race, or class.

From Memorabilia, Oeconomicus, Cynegeticus, he develops a paradigm in which the democracy harnessed the elites, and the elites responded by creating new codes of elite behaviour that did not harm the demos but were of assistance to it. Among them, Xenophon promotes a new interpretation of competitive ponos, ‘valorized eVort’. Cynegeticus reinvents hunting in a form that serves the democratic polis by training the elite in community warfare. Oeconomicus teaches principles of the new elite lifestyle as household management: the dangers of false appearances, the use of wealth, the nature of command, the meaning of being a free person, the importance of orderliness.

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