Vivienne Gray (dir.), Xenophon. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, coll. "Oxford Readings in Classical Studies", 2010. Pp. ix, 606.
- ISBN 9780199216185.
- $55.00 (pb).
Recension par David M. Johnson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.08.37.
Présentation de l'éditeur:
Xenophon's many and varied works represent a major source of information about the ancient Greek world: for example, about culture, politics, social life and history in the fourth century BC, Socrates, horses and hunting with dogs, the Athenian economy, and Sparta. However, there has been controversy about how his works should be read. This selection of significant modern critical essays will introduce readers to the wide range of his writing, the debates it has inspired, and the interpretative methodologies that have been used. A specially written Introduction by Vivienne J. Gray offers a survey of Xenophon's works, an account of his life with respect to them, a brief discussion of modern readings, reference to modern scholarship since the original publication of the articles, and a critical summary of their content. Several articles have been translated for the first time from French and German, and all quotations have been translated into English.
Table des matières:
Introduction, Vivienne J. Gray
I. Gender
1. Slavery in the Greek Domestic Economy in the Light of Xenophon's Oeconomicus, Sarah B. Pomeroy
2. Xenophon's Foreign Wives, Emily Baragwanath
3. Xenophon on Male Love, Clifford Hindley
II. Democracy
4. Xenophon's Programme in the Poroi, Philippe Gauthier
5. Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style, Steven Johnstone
6. The Seductions of the Gaze: Socrates and his Girlfriends, Simon Goldhill
III. Socrates
7. Xenophon's Socrates as Teacher, Donald R. Morrison
8. Xenophon's Socrates as Dialectician, Andreas Patzer
9. The Dancing Socrates and the Laughing Xenophon, or The Other Symposium, Bernhard Huss
10. The Straussian Interpretation of Xenophon: The Paradigmatic Case of Memorabilia IV.4, Louis-Andre Dorion
IV. Cyropaedia
11. The Idea of Imperial Monarchy in Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Pierre Carlier
12. Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaideia, Philip Stadter
13. The Question of the Good Life. The Meeting of Cyrus and Croesus in Xenophon, E. Lefevre
14. Xenophon's Cyropaedia and the Hellenistic Novel, Michael Reichel
15. The death of Cyrus. Xenophon's Cyropaedia as a Source for Iranian History, H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg
V. Historical Writing
16. The Sources for the Spartan Debacle at Haliartus, H. D. Westlake
17. Xenophon's Anabasis, Hartmut Erbse
18. You can't go home again: Displacement and Identity in Xenophon's Anabasis, John Ma
19. Irony and the Narrator in Xenophon's Anabasis, Patrick J. Bradley
20. Interventions and Citations in Xenophon's Hellenica and Anabasis, Vivienne J. Gray