The Use of History in the Political Speeches of Xenophon, from Marathon to Plataea. Rhetoric influences Xenophon’s political speech writing, especially in the way he makes use of Greek history. In Memorabilia III, 5, 10, for instance, Socrates calls attention to the inspirational value of past great deeds. This study of the political speeches in the Anabasis and the Hellenica, seeks to test the above assertion. Likewise, Xenophon uses the history of the Persian Wars to serve different objectives relating to the context of the particular speech at hand. For example, in the Anabasis, Xenophon’s mention of the battle of Marathon serves essentially to associate Greek victories with the founding sacrificial rite to Artemis Agrotera. In the Helle...
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
International audienceIn Xenophon’s Hellenica, the embassies of Cligenes of Acanthus and of Polydama...
Nombre d’œuvres d’époque impériale montrent que Xénophon était considéré comme un modèle littéraire ...
The Use of History in the Political Speeches of Xenophon, from Marathon to Plataea. Rhetoric influen...
Xénophon : the place of eulogy in historical works, from Hellenica (VI-VII) to Agesilaos. Even if eu...
Speeches in Xenophon's works aim at suppressing disorder and lack of courage (athumia). Thus, the au...
The Hellenica of Xenophon has consistently been impugned in this century as a source for the histori...
Abstract–. In Xenophon’s Hellenica, the embassies of Cligenes of Acanthus and of Polydamas of Pharsa...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the image of Agesilaus in contemporary or near contempor...
In the Hellenica, Xenophon shows a double concern in the story of the small city Phlious. First, he ...
Tales of the Other, tales of Elsewhere? Narrative, war and power in Xenophon’s Anabasis. All through...
Cette étude a pour but d’analyser l’attitude de Xénophon vis-à-vis d’Athènes et de la démocratie. En...
On a first reading of the Hellenica, the typical discontinuity of the narration about the scenery o...
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
In his non-historical writings, Xenophon makes judgements about the people he normally refers to as ...
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
International audienceIn Xenophon’s Hellenica, the embassies of Cligenes of Acanthus and of Polydama...
Nombre d’œuvres d’époque impériale montrent que Xénophon était considéré comme un modèle littéraire ...
The Use of History in the Political Speeches of Xenophon, from Marathon to Plataea. Rhetoric influen...
Xénophon : the place of eulogy in historical works, from Hellenica (VI-VII) to Agesilaos. Even if eu...
Speeches in Xenophon's works aim at suppressing disorder and lack of courage (athumia). Thus, the au...
The Hellenica of Xenophon has consistently been impugned in this century as a source for the histori...
Abstract–. In Xenophon’s Hellenica, the embassies of Cligenes of Acanthus and of Polydamas of Pharsa...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the image of Agesilaus in contemporary or near contempor...
In the Hellenica, Xenophon shows a double concern in the story of the small city Phlious. First, he ...
Tales of the Other, tales of Elsewhere? Narrative, war and power in Xenophon’s Anabasis. All through...
Cette étude a pour but d’analyser l’attitude de Xénophon vis-à-vis d’Athènes et de la démocratie. En...
On a first reading of the Hellenica, the typical discontinuity of the narration about the scenery o...
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
In his non-historical writings, Xenophon makes judgements about the people he normally refers to as ...
Some two and a half millennia ago, in the summer of 490 BC, a small army of 9,000 Athenians, support...
International audienceIn Xenophon’s Hellenica, the embassies of Cligenes of Acanthus and of Polydama...
Nombre d’œuvres d’époque impériale montrent que Xénophon était considéré comme un modèle littéraire ...