Estate Management and Symposium

Description

Xenophon recounted several Socratic dialogues which included his Symposium and Oeconomicus and both are concerned with Athenian private life. They are literary creations that reveal Xenophon as a skilled literary artist, an innovative thinker, and far from merely reflecting the conventional thinking of the world around him.

• A new translation of two of Xenophon's most famous works
• Two remarkable works for their unprecedented acknowledgement of the value of the sphere of women, within the home, and of the potential for women and slaves to display virtue that equals, and at times even exceeds, that of citizen men
• Alongside Xenophon's other Socratic dialogues these works are of great interest for the depiction of a Socrates who is fascinatingly unlike Plato
• Explanatory notes and up-to-date select bibliography

About the Author(s)

Xenophon and Emily Baragwanath, Associate Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina

Anthony Verity is a classical scholar and educationalist whose appointments include Head of Classics at Bristol Grammar School, Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School, and Master of Dulwich College from 1986 to 1995. His translations for Oxford World's Classics include Theocritus, Idylls, Pindar, The Complete Odes, and Homer's Iliad.

Emily Baragwanath is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her main area of scholarly interest is the literary techniques employed by Greek historians in their construction of historical narratives. Her book Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus (Oxford University Press, 2008) was the winner of Oxford's Conington Prize and the CAMWS Award for Outstanding Publication 2010.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
OECONOMICUS
SYMPOSIUM
Explanatory Notes

Reviews

"This edition of Xenophon's Oeconomicus and Symposium features a high-quality translation by Anthony Verity and a thought-provoking introduction by Emily Baragwanath. It is Baragwanath's introduction that makes this edition stand out from the competition." - David M. Johnson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Bryn Mawr Classical Review