Xenophon - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Gray, V. J. "Continuous History and Xenophon, Hellenica" In American Journal of Philology 112, No. 2 (Summer 1991): 201-28.

Argues for an "essential unity" in the Hellenica, refuting critics who perceive the work to have been composed at largely disparate points in time.

Henry, W. P. Greek Historical Writing: A Historiographical Essay Based on Xenophon 's "Hellenica. " Chicago: Argonaut, 1966, 219 p.

A detailed analytical study of the Hellenica, often cited by later critics as the authority on the dating and composition of Xenophon's history.

Hirsch, Steven W. The Friendship of the Barbarians. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1985, 216 p.

Pursues the questions concerning Xenophon's knowledge of and attitudes about Persia beyond study of the Cyropaedia and into Xenophon's other...

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