Xenophon

Xenophon Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal English Translations
• Essays
  • A preface to The School of Cyrus
  • On the Peculiarities of Xenophon's Style
  • Xenophon the Precursor of Hellenism
  • The Development of Greek Historiography after Thucydides
  • Xenophon's Cyropaedia, 'The Compleat General'
  • Leo Strauss (essay date 1948)
    • The Teaching Concerning Tyranny
  • The Fourth Century
  • J. K. Anderson (essay date 1974)
    • Religion and Politics
  • Christopher Grayson (essay date 1975)
    • Did Xenophon Intend to Write History?
  • Erotic Suffering
  • The Active Life
  • 1001 Iranian Nights: History and Fiction in Xenophon's Cyropaedia
  • V. J. Gray (essay date 1989)
    • Xenophon's Defence of Socrates: The Rhetorical Background to the Socratic Problem
  • Vivienne Gray (essay date 1989)
    • An introduction to The Character of Xenophon's 'Hellenica'
  • James Tatum (essay date 1989)
    • Revision
• Further Reading