The Failings of Empire: A Reading of Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.11-7.5.27Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993 - 264 páginas Current views of Xenophon's account of 404-362 BC under-play the fact that it is a chronological report of politico-military events which should be taken seriously and not seen merely as arbitrary pegs for didactic utterances. A reading of this idiosyncratic narrative is offered which shows how, by interplay of direct stress, allusiveness and telling silence, Xenophon invites a largely negative attitude to the major states and their leaders as they strive unsuccessfully for predominance. The record of Spartan aims and achievements is notably gloomy, but Thebes, Athens and Arcadia are also treated with scant respect. The disorder with which the work ends is the logical conclusion and a real source of discontent, not an excuse for terminating a narrative in which its author had lost interest. |
Índice
Athens Asia Minor and the Outbreak of the Corinthian War | 43 |
The Corinthian War | 65 |
The Consolidation of Spartan Power | 87 |
Friendship and Tyranny | 101 |
Sparta | 125 |
Thebes and Athens | 147 |
Conclusions | 163 |
Appendix I | 189 |
Appendix V | 207 |
238 | |
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The Failings of Empire: A Reading of Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.11-7.5.27 Christopher Tuplin Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
The Failings of Empire: A Reading of Xenophon Hellenica 2.3.11-7.5.27 Christopher Tuplin Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
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Términos y frases comunes
actually Agesilaus Agesipolis Agis allies Anab Anabasis Antalcidas appears Arcadian Archidamus argument Artaxerxes Asia Athenian Athens attack Autocles autonomy battle Boeotian Breitenbach Buckler Callias Callistratus campaign Cartledge cavalry Cawkwell certainly claim Cleombrotus Conon context contrast Corinth course Cyropaedia Cyrus defeat Dercylidas Dind Diod Diodorus divine Elean Elis encomium enemy Epaminondas Ephorus episode Euphron exile fact favour fourth century Gray Greece Greek Hatzfeld hegemony Hell Hellenica Hellenica Oxyrhyncia Heracles Hesych initial invasion Iphicrates Isocrates Jason King King's Peace Laconia later Leuctra Lysander Mantinea matter military narrative Olynthus passages Pausanias Peloponnesian perhaps Persian Pharnabazus Phliasian Phlius Phocian Phoebidas Plutarch political position present Procles reader reference schol SIG³ simply sources Spartan Sphodrias stress Suda suggests Teleutias Theban Thebes Thespiae Thrasybulus Thucydides Timocrates Timotheus Tithraustes treatment Triptolemus Tuplin victory Xenophon δὲ ἐν καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοὺς τῶν
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