Xenophon's Imperial Fiction : On The Education of Cyrus /
"If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ". . . you will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon's Education of Cyrus, or the Cyropaedia." The Cyrus in question is Cyrus the Great, the founder...
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| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1989]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Chapter One. The Classic as Footnote
- Chapter Two. The Rise of a Novel
- Chapter Three. The Curious Return of Cambyses
- Chapter Four. The Grandson of Astyages
- Chapter Five. The Envy of Uncle Cyaxares
- Chapter Six. Dialectical Imperialism: Tigranes and the Sophist of Armenia
- Chapter Seven. In the Face of the Enemy: A Meeting with Croesus of Lydia
- Chapter Eight. The Uses of Eros and the Hero
- Chapter Nine. The Economy of Empire
- Chapter Ten. Revision
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- INDEX LOCORUM.


