Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. Socrates on Athens 1. Xenophon’s Apology: The Death of Socratic Irony; the Birth of Xenophontic Irony 2. The Memorabilia: Remembering Truth and Lies about Socrates 3. Partying Life (Away) in Xenophon’s Symposium 4. The Economies of Pedagogy in the Oeconomicus: Xenophon's Wifely Didactics Part II. Xenophon on Athens 5. The Critique of the Sophists in On Hunting 6. Xenophon on Equine Culture 7. Xenophon’s Poroi or ‘Ways and Means’? Part III. The Rest of Greece 8. Why Xenophon’s Hiero Is Not a Socratic Dialogue 9. Spartan Dis-appointments 10. The Hellenica and the Irony of War Part IV. Persia 11. Xenophon’s Cyropaedia: Disfiguring the Pedagogical State 12. Coming Home? The Anabasis as Community Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Argues for the importance of irony as a unifying aspect of all of Xenophon's works, used to pose critiques of the societies in which he finds himself.

About the Author

Yun Lee Too is an independent scholar based in the UK.

Reviews

This is a thought-provoking and original approach to Xenophon. It ranges across the whole of Xenophon’s corpus and with remarkable clarity and concision argues that scholars have missed a fundamental aspect of Xenophon’s work: their ironic takes on their subject matter.
*Timothy Duff, Professor of Classics, University of Reading, UK*