xenophon – A Cornucopia of Classics Resources: Diverse Food for Thought

Historical Agency and Self-Awareness in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis

By Sarah Brown Ferrario Abstract: Historical agency is difficult to define in the abstract, because any attempt to do so poses questions about the nature of history. If history is an objective reality, then the true…

Date: 18 July 2021
Category: Classical Greek History Greek Historiography Greek History Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources

Xenophon’s Other Voice: Irony as Social Criticism in the 4th Century BCE

By Yun Lee Too This volume explores irony – in its essence, saying other than one actually means – in the collected works of Xenophon. Xenophon’s Other Voice argues that there are two voices in the author: one…

Date: 18 July 2021
Category: Greek Historiography Greek Language and Literature Greek Oratory/Rhetoric Greek Philosophical Writing Greek Resources

Xenophon of Athens: A Socratic on Sparta

By Noreen Humble Abstract: Xenophon of Athens (c. 430–354 BCE) has long been considered an uncritical admirer of Sparta who hero-worships the Spartan King Agesilaus and eulogises Spartan practices in his Lacedaimoniôn…

Date: 14 July 2021
Category: Classical Greek History Greek Historiography Greek History Greek Language and Literature Greek Philosophical Writing

The character of Xenophon’s ‘Hellenica’

By Vivienne Gray Abstract: Gray’s approach to the Hellenica, most problematic of historiographical texts, organises close reading of long translated excerpts into three large sections on Xenophon’s three narrative…

Date: 2 July 2021
Category: Classical Greek History Greek Historiography Greek History Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources

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Historical Agency and Self-Awareness in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis

Xenophon’s Other Voice: Irony as Social Criticism in the 4th Century BCE

Xenophon of Athens: A Socratic on Sparta

The character of Xenophon’s ‘Hellenica’

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