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Auteur: Xenophon Xenophon
Co-auteur: H G Dakyns Xenophon
  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780674990579
  • 01 januari 1914
  • 416 pagina's
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Xenophon

Xenophon was an Athenian country gentleman born about 430 BC. He may have helped to publish Thucydides’ History, and certainly wrote his own Hellenica as a continuation of it. By his own (probably reliable) account he was a fine officer and outstanding leader, but his admiration for Sparta and devotion to Socrates, among other causes, led to his banishment. He was given an estate at Scillus and settled down to enjoy the life of a landed aristocrat, and it was during this period that he began to write histories, biographies, memoirs and specialist treatises. The defeat of Sparta in 371 forced him to move to Corinth where he probably lived for the rest of his life.
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Cyropaedia is a historical romance on the education of the sixth-century BC Persian king Cyrus the Great that reflects Xenophon’s ideas about rulers and government.



A royal education.

Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this “March Up-Country” (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered service under the Spartans against the Persian king, married happily, and joined the staff of the Spartan king, Agesilaus. But Athens was at war with Sparta in 394 and so exiled Xenophon. The Spartans gave him an estate near Elis where he lived for years writing and hunting and educating his sons. Reconciled to Sparta, Athens restored Xenophon to honor, but he preferred to retire to Corinth.

Xenophon’s Anabasis is a true story of remarkable adventures. Hellenica, a history of Greek affairs from 411 to 362, begins as a continuation of Thucydides’ account. There are four works on Socrates (collected in LCL 168). In Memorabilia Xenophon adds to Plato’s picture of Socrates from a different viewpoint. The Apology is an interesting complement to Plato’s account of Socrates’ defense at his trial. Xenophon’s Symposium portrays a dinner party at which Socrates speaks of love; and Oeconomicus has him giving advice on household management and married life. Cyropaedia, a historical romance on the education of Cyrus (the Elder), reflects Xenophon’s ideas about rulers and government; the Loeb edition is in two volumes.

We also have his Hiero, a dialogue on government; Agesilaus, in praise of that king; Constitution of Lacedaemon (on the Spartan system); Ways and Means (on the finances of Athens); Manual for a Cavalry Commander; a good manual of Horsemanship; and a lively Hunting with Hounds. The Constitution of the Athenians, though clearly not by Xenophon, is an interesting document on politics at Athens. These eight books are collected in the last of the seven volumes of the Loeb Classical Library edition of Xenophon.

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Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
01 januari 1914
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416
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Hoofdauteur
Xenophon
Tweede Auteur
Xenophon
Co Auteur
Xenophon
Hoofdredacteur
F M Stawell
Tweede Redacteur
The Perfect Library
Hoofduitgeverij
Loeb

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler
Henry Graham Dakyns
Tweede Vertaler
H. G. Dakyns

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Extra groot lettertype
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Product breedte
108 mm
Product hoogte
23 mm
Product lengte
162 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
110 mm
Verpakking hoogte
170 mm
Verpakking lengte
20 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
280 g

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9780674990579

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