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Author Melammu Workshop (2017 : Marburg, Germany)

Title Ancient Information on Persia re-assessed : Xenophon's Cyropaedia : proceedings of a conference held at Marburg in honour of Christopher J. Tuplin, December 1-2, 2017 / edited by Bruno Jacobs
Published Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 407 pages) : illustrations
Series Classica et Orientalia ; v. 22
Classica et orientalia.
Contents Cover -- Title Pages -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Bruno Jacobs: Christopher J. Tuplin: an Appreciation -- Bibliography of Publications of Christopher J. Tuplin -- Genre and Meaning -- Frances Pownall: Xenophon's Cyropaedia and Greek Historiography -- Irene Madreiter: Cyropaedia and the Greek 'Novel' again -- Louis-André Dorion: Cyrus and Socrates: Two Models on an Equal Footing? -- The Author's View -- Reinhold Bichler: Cyropaedia -- 'Historical Space' and the Nations at the Fringes of the Oikumene
John E. Esposito: On the Fundamental Activities of the Leader in Xenophon's Education of Cyrus -- Michael A. Flower: Xenophon's Anabasis and Cyropaedia: a Tale of Two Cyruses -- Gabriel Danzig: The Younger Cyrus and the Alter Cyrus -- Cyropaedia as Historical Source -- Julian Degen: Ancient Near Eastern Traditions in Xenophon's Cyropaedia -- Bruno Jacobs: Cyropaedia and the "Gift-Bearer Reliefs" from the So-called apadāna at Persepolis -- Literary Reception -- Sabine Müller: Xenophon's Kyroupaideia and the Alexander Historiographers
Deborah L. Gera: Luxury and Authority in the Cyropaedia, Esther, and Judith -- Sulochana Asirvatham: The Cyropaedia in Imperial Greek Literature -- Richard Stoneman: Xenophon's Education of Cyrusin Early Modern Europe -- Noreen Humble: Worn out in the Reading: Xenophon's Cyropaedia in the Sixteenth Century -- Melina Tamiolaki: Straussian Readings of the Cyropaedia: Challenges and Controversies -- Concluding Remarks -- Vivienne Gray: Reflections on Near Eastern Realities in the Cyropaedia -- Indices -- Names of Persons and Deities -- Topo- and Ethnonyms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2020)
Subject Xenophon. Cyropaedia -- Congresses
SUBJECT Cyropaedia (Xenophon) fast
Subject Historiography -- Congresses
Historiography
SUBJECT Iran -- Historiography -- Congresses
Subject Iran
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Tuplin, Christopher, honouree.
Jacobs, Bruno, editor
ISBN 9783447199070
3447199075