Conversations of socrates

Xenophon (431-355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece. He participated in the expedition led by Cyrus the Younger against his older brother, the emperor Artaxerxes II of Persia, in 401 BC. His record of the entire expedition against the Persians and the journey home was titled Anabasis (The Expedition or The March Up Country). He was later exiled from Athens, most likely because he fought under the Spartan king Agesilaus against Athens at Coronea. The Spartans gave him property at Scillus, near Olympia in Elis, where he composed the Anabasis. His writings are often read by beginning students of the Greek language. His Hellenica is a major primary source for events in Greece from 411 to 362 BC, and his Socratic writings, preserved complete, are the only surviving representatives of the genre of Sokratikoi logoi other than the dialogues of Plato.

Economique

Mémorables; Livre 4

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Anabase, Livres 1-2

La Cyropédie ou Éducation de Cyrus, dont le titre ne convient tout à fait qu'à une partie du premier livre, est une oeuvre difficile à définir et à classer, ainsi qu'en témoigne la diversité des appellations qui lui ont été données : histoire, histoire romancée ou roman historique, biographie romancée, roman philosophique ou moral, roman didactique, traité d'éducation, institution militaire, ouvrage socratique, éloge. En fait, elle est tout cela. Elle se présente comme la Somme des idées sur l'éducation, la politique, la morale, l'art militaire, la chasse, l'équitation, que Xénophon avait déjà exprimées ou qu'il exprimera plus tard - c'est là affaire de dates - dans ses autres écrits, notamment dans ses traités plus courts et plus spécialisés.

Cyropédie. Tome II: Livres III-V

L’Anabase est une des plus célèbres œuvres de l'auteur grec Xénophon.Elle raconte le périple, en -400, des Dix-Mille : un corps expéditionnaire de 10 000 mercenaires grecs (spartiates principalement) engagés par Cyrus le Jeune dans sa lutte contre son frère Artaxerxès II, roi de Perse, puis leur retraite vers la mer Noire à travers le haut pays d'Arménie.

L'anabase, suivit du Banquet

L'Anabase de Xénophon, chronique et premier récit autobiographique, raconte le périple des Dix-Mille, mercenaires levés par Cyrus pour détrôner son frère, le roi de Perse. Ce récit constitue une source essentielle sur la Perse, les peuples du plateau anatolien et la Grèce des Ve-IVe siècles avant Jésus-Christ.

L'Anabase ou l'expédition des dix mille

Il est plus difficile de rencontrer un homme sachant supporter le bonheur que le malheur. (VIII, 4, 14)

Cyropédie

Hellenica=Ἑλληνικά means writings on Hellenic subjects. Several histories of 4th-century Greece, written in the mold of Thucydides or straying from it, have borne the conventional Latin title Hellenica. The surviving Hellenica is by the Greek writer Xenophon & one of the principal sources for the final seven years of the Peloponnesian War not covered by Thucydides, & its aftermath. Many consider this a very personal work, written by Xenophon in retirement on his Spartan estate, intended primarily for circulation among his friends, for people who knew the main protagonists & events, often because they had participated in them. His account starts in 411 BCE, the year where Thucydides breaks off. It ends in 362, the year of the Battle of Mantineia. There is virtually no transition between the two works, to the extent that the first line of Hellenica is translated as After this, or sometimes Following these events.

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