Xenophon's Spartan Constitution: Introduction. Text. CommentaryWalter de Gruyter, 9 Αυγ 2012 - 310 σελίδες This work presents a new critical edition of The Spartan Constitution, a treatise in state philosophy attributed to the historian Xenophon (c. 430 - c. 355 B. C.). The Greek text, reconstructed on the basis of extant manuscript sources, is prefaced by an introduction and supplemented by a critical commentary and an English translation. The introduction discusses the problem of the text's authenticity and dating and provides a comprehensive account of its sources, reception, language, style and structure as well as an analysis of the manuscript sources and the textual tradition. The commentary addresses linguistic as well as historical problems. |
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VI Purpose and audience | 31 |
VII Historicity | 32 |
VIII Reception | 37 |
XII Text | 56 |
SIGLORUM CONSPECTUS | 63 |
TEXT AND TRANSLATION | 64 |
COMMENTARY | 97 |
APPENDIXES | 253 |
The seizure of cheese from the altar of Orthia in Xenophon and the diamastigosis of the later sources | 255 |
The structure of the Spartan army according to Xenophon and Thucydides | 257 |
FIGURES | 265 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
Xenophon's Spartan Constitution: Introduction, Text, Commentary Xenophon,Michael Lipka Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 2002 |