Xenophon Xenophon

in seven volumes

Bevat o.a. een biografie van de wijsgeer Socrates (Atheniensis)

Engels | Oudgrieks (tot 1453) | 672 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA | 1968

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Xenophon Xenophon

"Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE), a member of a wealthy but politically quietist Athenian family and an admirer of Socrates, left Athens in 401 BCE to serve as a mercenary commander for Cyrus the Younger of Persia, then joined the staff of King Agesilaus II of Sparta before settling in Elis and, in the aftermath of the battle of Leuctra in 371 BCE, retiring to Corinth. His historical and biographical works, Socratic dialogues and reminiscences, and short treatises on hunting, horsemanship, economics,...

Engels | Oudgrieks (tot 1453) | 702 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA [etc.] | 2013

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