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Ancient information on Persia re-assessed : Xenophon's Cyropaedia
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ISBN: 9783447112833 3447112832 9783447199070 3447199075 Year: 2020 Volume: 22 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz

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In the past Xenophon’s Cyropaedia has attracted the attention of scholars primarily for literary-historical reasons. It is one of the main tasks of the present publication to free discussion of the work from this relatively narrow disciplinary constraint. As questions of genre cannot be ignored anyway, the volume opens with contributions that consider where Cyropaedia stands in relation to historiography, the novel and Socratic literature. The next group of studies deals with how Xenophon drew on material from other authors and from his own experience to develop a picture of the emergence of the Persian Empire and of the way in which power was exercised there. Investigations of this sort presuppose questions about the historië that underpins Cyropaedia, and that topic is the focus of two further contributions that deal specifically with the types of information that were available to Xenophon. A final group of contributions looks at the impact of the work in canonical and deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament, in the writings of the Alexander historians and in modern literature up to the 18th century.

Xenophon's Cyropaedia : style, genre and literary technique
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ISBN: 0198144776 Year: 1993 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon


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Xenophon's imperial fiction
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ISBN: 0691067570 1322026688 9781400860036 1400860032 9780691067575 0691606668 9780691606668 Year: 1989 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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"If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ". . . you will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon's Education of Cyrus, or the Cyropaedia." The Cyrus in question is Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire celebrated in the Book of Ezra as the liberator of Israel, and the Cyropaedia, written to instruct future rulers by his example, became not only an inspiration to poets and novelists but a profoundly influential political work. With Alexander as its earliest student, and Elizabeth I of England one of its later pupils, it was the founding text for the tradition of "mirrors for princes" in the West, including Machiavelli's Prince. Xenophon's masterpiece has been overlooked in recent years: Tatum's goal is to make it fully meaningful for the twentieth-century reader.To accomplish this aim, he uses reception study, philological and historical criticism, and an intertextual and structural analysis of the narrative. Engaging the fictional and the political in a single reading, he explains how the form of the work allowed Xenophon to transcend the limitations of historical writing, although in the end the historian's passion for truth forced him to subvert the work in a controversial epilogue.Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Xenophon's prince : republic and empire in the Cyropaedia.
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ISBN: 0520224043 9780520224049 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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Political fiction, Greek --- Kings and rulers in literature --- Politique-fiction grecque --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Xenophon. --- Cyrus, --- In literature --- Politics and literature --- Republicanism --- Republicanism in literature --- Imperialism --- Imperialism in literature --- History --- History and criticism --- Cyrus --- Xenophon --- Iran --- -Imperialism in literature --- -Politics and literature --- -Republicanism --- -Republicanism in literature --- Political science --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Greek political fiction --- Greek fiction --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- -History and criticism --- Political aspects --- Cyrus King of Persia --- -Xenophon --- In literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Republicanism in literature. --- Xenofon --- Xenofoon --- Xenophoon --- Senofonte --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran --- Politics and literature - Greece --- Republicanism - Greece --- Imperialism - History - To 1500 --- Political fiction, Greek - History and criticism --- Cyrus - In literature --- Iran - In literature

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