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THE LANDMARK
XENOPHON'S HELLENIKA
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Robert Strassler - Editor
John Marincola - Translator
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Pantheon Books, NY., 2009, pgs,
extensive maps, index, elaborate footnotes, annotations, 16 appendices, -
Intoduction by David Thomas
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Inroduction - David Thomas
Professor Thomas sucinctly describes the background, the years 480 - 411, in
which Athens and Sparta first successfully defended Greece from the Persian
Empire and then conducted fratricidal war between them with Persia seeking to
take advantage where ever it can. He then notes that Xenophon (like Herodotus)
presumes his readers know so much and therefore he leaves out information that
we need. He supplies a summary outline of the period. He provides important
information about Xenophon and his other works. Fifteen written works have been
ascribed (or not) to Xenophon and have reached us. Considering how many works
of other ancient authors are lost, this is remarkable itself. Probably the most
well known today are the Cyropaedia and the Anabasis. Professor Thomas also
compares Xenophon to Thucydides and other authors including Ephorus and
Diodorus Siculus.
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Editor's Preface - Robert Strassler
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Book One: The Final Years of the Peloponnesian War, 411-406
B.C.
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Book Two: Aigospotamoi; The Thirty at Athens, 406-403
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Book Three: Spartan Military Operations in Asia,
401-395
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Book Four: Spartan Victories on Land, Defeat at Sea,
395-388
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Book Five: Sparta at the Height of its Power, 388-375
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Book Six: Thebes Defeats Sparta and Invades Laconia,
375-369
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Book Seven: The Great Battle of Mantineia Decides Nothing,
369-362
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Appendix A - Peter Krentz - The Arginousai Affair
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Appendix B - Peter Krentz - The Athenian Government and the
Oligarchy of the Thirty
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Appendix C - David Thomas - Chronological Problems in the
Continuation
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Appendix D - Christopher Tuplin - Persia in Xenophon's
Hellenika
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Appendix E - Paul Cartledge - Spartan Government and
Society
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Appendix F - Paul Cartledge - The Spartan Army and the Battle
of Leuctra
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Appendix G - Paul Cartledge - Agesilaos
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Appendix H - P. J. Rhodes - Political Leagues (Other than
Sparta's)
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Appendix I - Thomas R. Martin - Units of Distance, Currency and
Capacity in Xenophon's Hellenika
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Appendix J - Christopher Blackwell - Ancient Greek Religion in
the Time of Xenophon
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Appendix K - Nicole Hirschfeld - Trireme Warfare in Xenophon's
Hellenika
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Appendix L - John W. I. Lee - Land Warfare in Xenophon's
Hellenika
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Apendix M - Skyler Balbus et al. - Brief Biographies of
Important Characters
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Appendix N - David Thomas - Compositional Theories of
Xenophon's Hellenika
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Appendix O - Peter Green translator - Selections from the
Histories of Diodorus Siculus
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Appendix P - John Marincola translator - Selected fragments of
the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia
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