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Xenophon’s Hellenika Books 4 & 5 – May 2010 audio recording

Here’s the audio recording for the Xenophon Books 4 & 5 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Continue reading

11. May 2010 by Arrian
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Xenophon Books IV & V Study Guide Questions

1. [4.1] Agesilaos the matchmaker Continue reading

03. May 2010 by Arrian
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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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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

23. March 2010 by Arrian
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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

08. March 2010 by Arrian
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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

23. February 2010 by Arrian
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Xenophon Hellenika conference call tonight

Hi fellow Hellenika readers– A gentle reminder about our call tonight for Books I – II.3.10, at 8pm EST, 7pm Central. You have the dial-in information. Get in touch with me if you still need it. I look forward to our conversation! Thanks, Andre Continue reading

22. February 2010 by Arrian
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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

17. February 2010 by Arrian
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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

04. February 2010 by Arrian
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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

15. January 2010 by Arrian
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