Xenophon's Mirror of Princes: Reading the Reflections
Xenophon's Mirror of Princes: Reading the Reflections
Xenophon is perhaps best known as the leader of the Ten Thousand on the Anabasis, the famous march of the Greek army through hostile territory to the Black Sea.
However, he was also a prolific author, and in this study, Vivienne J. Gray focuses on the ways in which his literary practices shape images of leadership in his narrative works.
Gray surveys the views on leadership that Xenophon credits to Socrates, and illustrates in detail his construction of leadership models through the close examination of selected narratives in works such as Anabasis and Cyropaedia.
The techniques include the creation of patterned narratives, as well as allusions to the writings of Homer and Herodotus.
Gray takes issue with the school of thought that finds hidden subversion beneath Xenophon's surface praise of leaders.
Author: Vivienne J. Gray
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/04/2011
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780199563814
About the Author
Vivienne J. Gray is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Auckland.
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