Category Archives for Xenophon
Xenophon Books IV & V Study Guide Questions
1. [4.1] Agesilaos the matchmaker Continue reading
Xenophon’s Hellenika March 22, 2010 Books II.3.11- III audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for the Xenophon Books II.3.11 – III call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Continue reading
Xenophon’s Hellenika Books II.3.11-III Study Guide Questions
Hi fellow Xenophon readers,As you read through the next section of Hellenika in anticipation of our next conference call, here are some questions to help guide you and call attention to particular moments in the text. In the next week, I will be a… Continue reading
Xenophon’s Hellenika February 2010 Bks I – II.3 Audio Recording
Here is the audio recording for Xenophon’s Hellenika Books I – II.3.10. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Continue reading
Xenophon is my newspaper
“Literature is news that stays news” – Ezra Pound Xenophon has been my ‘newspaper’ for the last couple of months. I hope your reading so far has been great. As you know our next conference call is on Monday Feb 22. I am sending out individual requ… Continue reading
Xenophon’s Hellenika Books I – II.3.10 Study Guide Questions
Xenophon Reading Group 2010 Book I – II.3.10 Study Guide Questions 1. Alcibiades – You’ve got to either love him or hate him…or both. Xenophon tells of his role in the latter years of the Pelopponesian War throughout our reading assignment for thi… Continue reading
Xenophon’s Hellenika – Book I List of Names
Athenian (mostly leaders, i.e. generals, admirals) Thymocares Alcibiades Thrasyllos Theramenes Thrasyboulos Eumachos Konon Diomedon Aristokrates Pericles Erasinides Protomachos Lysias Aristogenes Archedamos (a city leader at Athens) Timokrates Kal… Continue reading
Xenophon’s Hellenika – Introductory Call audio recording
Here is the audio recording for Xenophon’s Hellenika January 2010 Introductory call (with special guest Robert Strassler). Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Continue reading
Welcome to the Xenophon’s Hellenika reading group!
I am Andre Stipanovic and will be your moderator for the next 7 months as we discuss this great book, published in the Landmark series and edited by Robert Strassler. We are fortunate to have Robert Strassler himself join us on our first call sche… Continue reading
Xenophon Quotes
Dear fellow Xenophon readers: Nota Bene: Did you know… that Spartiates (full Spartan male citizens) served in the army till they reached the age of sixty? (4.5.14c) Book 4 concerns itself mostly with the land battles still raging in Greece itsel… Continue reading →
07. April 2010 by Arrian
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