| Xenophon And The History Of His Times Contributor(s): Dillery, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 041509139X ISBN-13: 9780415091398 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: This book places the historical writing of Xenophon in the broader context of his entire corpus as well as of the intellectual climate of his day. Previously, studies of Xenophon have simply focused on the reliability of these texts for determining what happened in the Greek world from 411 to 362 B.C. br br b /b b i Xenophon and the History of his Times /i /b presents a more comprehensive analysis of the attitudes and methods which inform the i Hellenica /i and the i Anabasis /i . Xenophon is shown to be very much a man of his times, concerned with important issues ranging from panhellenism and utopia, to the role of the individual in shaping important events, to the part the divine plays in shaping human history. This discussion makes extensive use not only of Xenophon's entire corpus, but also works by a number of his contemporaries. br br All those interested in the history of Greek intellectual life at the close of the fith and first half of the fourth centuries B.C., as well as the political and military history of this period, will find this study useful and stimulating. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Foreign Language Study | Greek (modern) - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical |
| Dewey: 938.007 |
| LCCN: 94030021 |
| Lexile Measure: 1530 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.31 lbs) 350 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Xenophon and the History of his Times examines Xenophon's longer historical works, the Hellenica and the Anabasis. Dillery considers how far these texts reflect the Greek intellectual world of the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., rather than focusing on the traditional question of how accurate they are as histories. Through analysis of the complete corpus of Xenophon's work, and the writings of his contemporaries, Xenophon is shown to be very much a man of his times, concerned with topical issues ranging from panhellenism and utopia to how far the gods controlled human history. |