| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 444 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: -- Xenophon, or the Itinerary of a Traitor? -- A Corpus in All its Fragmentary Splendor -- The Masks of a Multifaceted man -- From Charisma to Chans -- Chan's in All Its Forms -- The Limits of Analysis and Methodological Gains -- Charis and Its Challenges -- I. The Law of Charts -- A Social Norm -- A Universal Form of Anthropology -- An Immanent Model -- II. Charis and Authority -- Horizontal Exchanges and Vertical Links -- The Delicate Position of the Recipient -- On the Strangeness of Thracian Customs? -- III. Charis in Democracy -- Athens and Its Allies: Imperial Charis -- Within the City: Charis Placed Under Supervision? -- The Emergence of a Democratic Form of Charis -- Legitimate Favors -- I. Xenophon's Three Graces -- Euergetic Spending -- Honorific Distinctions -- Charismatic attentions -- II. Supreme Benefits: Feeding Bodies and Minds -- An Economy of Alimentary Charis -- Dangerous Foodstuffs? -- The Art of Dining -- From Alimentary Prodigality to Philosophical Euergetism -- III. Contextualizing Favors: The Differential Effectiveness of Gifts -- The Spirit of the Gift -- Xenophon and the Transmutation of Benefits -- From Good Deeds to Misdeeds: The Corrupting -- Power of Charis -- I. The Ambiguities of Xenia -- II. Agesilaus and Xenophon: The Incorruptibles? -- III. From Material Corruption to Spiritual Corruption -- Between Charis and Misthos: Xenophon Against the Merchants? -- I. ̀The Hostile World' of Goods -- Buying Gratitude and Selling Favors? -- Enslaved by Misthos: Democratic Prostitution -- Refusing Coinage, Rejecting Merchants -- The Aristocrat and the Mercenary -- II. The Ambiguous Virtues of Commercial Exchange -- Small Deals with the Market -- On the Art of Giving a Salary -- The Proper Use of Mercenary Service -- The Poroi: A Conversion to Civic Misthos} -- Charis and Envy -- I. The Omnipresence of Phthonos: The Social Genesis of a Feeling -- The Envy of the People -- ̀Intra-elite' Rivalries -- II. Leveling From the Bottom or Redistributing From the Top? -- Spartan Standardization -- The Benefits of Charis -- III. Phthonos and Charis: Dangerous Liaisons -- Socrates and Envy -- Self-Praise and the Jealousy of Others -- Royal Charis and the Phthonos of the Elite -- Charis and Philia: The Politics of Friendship -- I. The Debate over Philia -- Democratic and Aristotelian Philia -- Xenophon's Friendships -- II. Philia and Patronage -- Socrates and Unequal Friendships -- Crito, Critobulus, and Their ̀Friends' -- Philia and Public Patronage -- III. From Philia to Philanthropia -- The First Philanthropists -- Cyrus, Friend of All Men -- An Inaugural Shift? -- Charis and Paternity -- I. From Fraternal Union to Paternal Love -- Fraternity, or the Power of Solidarity -- Paternity, or the Paradigm of Debt -- II. Paternal Power: An Unattainable Dream? -- Agesilaus: A Father in the City of Brothers? -- Xenophon, or the Frustrated Father -- Socrates and the Jealous Fathers -- III. Cyrus, or the Universal Father -- From the Perfect Son to the Benevolent Father -- The Fostering Father -- Symbolic Fathers and Ideal Sons: The King and the Eunuchs -- The Graces of Love -- I. Erotic Reciprocity and Its Dangers -- Eros in the Game of Exchange -- Eros Goes to War -- II. The Political Power of the Eromenos -- From Love of the City to Love of the Leader -- Three Paradoxical Eromenoi -- III. From Socrates to Cyrus: The Rivalry of Two Graces -- Strange Beauty Contests -- Cyrus, or Prince Charming -- The Politics of Radiance -- IV. Epilogue: On the Love of Men and the Veneration of the Gods -- Power and Time: The Charismatic Paradox -- The Miscontemporary -- Philological Annex: Charis in Xenophon's Corpus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-414) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Xenophon -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Xenophon fast |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Krieger, Angela, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781910589939 |
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1910589934 |
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