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Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its reception

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  • Media type: E-Book; Conference Proceedings
  • Title: Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its reception
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Acknowledgements
    Contents
    Abbreviations
    List of Figures
    Introduction
    Part I: New Readings of Xenophon’s Anabasis
    Starting and Restarting the Anabasis
    Killing the King: Cyrus’ Attack on his Brother in Anabasis, and its Reception in Cyropaedia
    Xenophon’s Moral Luck: Crisis and Leadership Opportunity in Anabasis 3
    The Reception and Interpretation of Xenophon’s Discussion with Socrates in the Anabasis (3.1.4–8)
    From the Tigris to the Sea: The Problematic Geography of Anabasis Book 4
    A Universalist Moral Compass: Depicting Greeks and Foreigners in Anabasis 5 and 6
    Xenophon’s Woes in Thrace: The Very Model of a Modern Mercenary Commander?
    Part II: Themes in Xenophon’s Anabasis
    Friendship (φιλία) in Xenophon’s Anabasis
    Beyond Xenophon: Other Speakers in Xenophon’s Anabasis
    Rumour and Misrepresentation in Xenophon’s Anabasis
    Emotions and Narrative in Xenophon’s Anabasis: Leaders Handling Negative Emotions
    The Human Body in Xenophon’s Anabasis
    Part III: The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis from Antiquity to Modern Times
    Anabasis as Monument: Arrian, Xenophontic Space, and Literary Authority
    Xenophon and Arrian: Aspects of Leadership in their Anabases
    The Anabases of Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’ Charicleia
    The Siren’s Song: Xenophon’s Anabasis in Byzantium
    The Reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis in the 15th and 16th Centuries
    The Anabasis Illustrated
    Voltaire: Questions on the Anabasis
    Scillus and After: The Historian’s Retreat from Xenophon to Toynbee
    The Anabasis in Paramount’s Promotion of The Warriors (1979): From the Gang Streets to The New York Times
    Envoi
    Teaching the Anabasis in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Prospects
    List of Contributors
    General Index
    Index of Key Passages
  • Contributor: Rood, Tim [HerausgeberIn]; Tamiōlakē, Elenē Melina [HerausgeberIn]
  • imprint: Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, [2022]
  • Published in: Trends in classics - supplementary volumes ; volume 134
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 555 Seiten); Illustrationen
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9783110793437
  • ISBN: 9783110793437; 9783110793482
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  • Keywords: Xenophon
    Xenophon > Rezeption
    Xenophon > Rezeption
  • Reproduction note: Issued also in print
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: This volume constitutes the first large-scale collaborative reflection on Xenophon’s Anabasis, gathering experts on Greek historiography and Xenophon. It is structured in three sections: the first section provides a linear reading of the Anabasis through chapters on select episodes (from Book 1 through Book 7), including the opening, Cyrus’ characterisation, the meeting of Socrates and Xenophon, Xenophon’s leadership, the marches through Armenia and along the Black Sea coast and the service under Seuthes in Thrace.The second section offers an in-depth exploration of hitherto overlooked recurrent themes. Based on new approaches and scholarly trends, it focuses on topics such as the concept of friendship, the speeches of characters other than Xenophon, the suffering of the human body, the role of rumour and misrepresentation, and the depiction of emotions.The third section offers a more thorough investigation of the manifold reception of this work (in Antiquity, Byzantium, Renaissance, modern period, in cinema studies and illustrations).Finally, in acknowledgement of the Anabasis’ long history as a pedagogical text, the volume contains an envoi on the importance and benefits of teaching Xenophon and the Anabasis, more specifically
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