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 writings.

Johnstone, Steven. "Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style." Classical Philology 89, no. 3 (July 1994): 219-40.

Analyses passages from many of Xenophon's works, focusing especially on descriptions of individual self-control, in order to demonstrate "Xenophon's interests in constructing a style of living that would justify and enhance the power of elites."

Mahaffy, J. P. "Xenophon." In A History of Classical Greek Literature, Vol. II: The Prose Writers , pp. 252-91. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880.

Offers a detailed overview of Xenophon, beginning with a biographical sketch, moving through all of the works, and concluding with a commentary on "Xenophon's Defects."

Sage, Paula Winsor. "Tradition, Genre, and Character Portrayal: Cyropaedia 8.7 and Anabasis 1.9." In Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 32, No. 1 (Spring 1991): 61-79.

Presents correspondances between death scenes in the Cyropaedia and the Anabasis, in the process determining some of Xenophon's characteristic rhetorical strategies.

Stadter, Philip A. "Fictional Narrative in the Cyropaedia" In American Journal of Philology 112, No. 4 (Winter 1991): 461-91.

Claiming for the Cyropaedia the status of "the first extant novel," this article investigates its different narrative elements, with an extended study of the function of time.

Strauss, Leo. Xenophon's Socratic Discourse: An Interpretation of the Oeconmicus. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1970, 211 p.

Provides, alongside a "new, literal translation," a chapter-by-chapter commentary on the Oeconomicus.

……. Xenophon 's Socrates. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1972, 181 p.

Provides detailed commentary on Xenophon's Socratic writings, including the Memorabilia, Apology of Socrates to the Jury, and Symposium.

Usher, Stephen. "Xenophon." In The Historians of Greece and Rome, pp. 66-99. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1969.

Presents a general and accessible study of Xenophon's works, with an extended discussion of the Hellenica.

Westlake, H. D. "Individuals in Xenophon, Hellenica.'' In Essays on the Greek Historians and Greek History, pp. 203-25. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1969.

Examines the concept of the individual at work in Xenophon's Hellenica, with an overall emphasis on the military leader.