{"product_id":"xenophon-the-historian-9783119142250","title":"Xenophon the Historian","description":"\u003cp\u003eXenophon the historian was formed by the historiographical culture of his time and by his own history as pupil of Socrates, mercenary leader and political exile. These perspectives underpin a collection of essays that explores his sophisticated and occasionally idiosyncratic engagement with the past (both in historical narratives and elsewhere) and the strategies of later readers\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ewho harnessed his work to their own agendas. The wider world (Greek and non-Greek) also comes into view, both in the vivid and sometimes brutal experience of war among the Ten Thousand and in the political conflicts and socio-religious institutions and \u003cem\u003emores\u003c\/em\u003e that framed his life-story. We discover a writer trying to make sense of that world, to evaluate what happens in it, to discern trends – and ultimately to inform the present with lessons from the past. The eighteen chapters illustrate the calibre and value of a writer at work when history was still a genre in development whose modes and expectations created opportunities more than constraints. The overarching aim of the volume is thus to illuminate what it meant to be a historian in such a period, and how and why Xenophon’s past-oriented thinking and writing mattered beyond his own lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher J. Tuplin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48934483099899,"sku":"9783119142250","price":142.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_e3371a5a-1969-449c-aede-978130bf45e7.jpg?v=1780428496","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/xenophon-the-historian-9783119142250","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}