But they were shipwrecked during their voyage; barely saved, they forsook all things and departed for Palestine. Saint Xenophon and his wife Mary, ignorant of what had happened, went in search of ...

Xenophon’s worldview was more nuanced. He was admired – and read – by Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Niccolo Machiavelli and Thomas Jefferson who, in their differing ways, drew inspiration from ...

The Role of Socrates in the Arginusae Affair. Trends in Classics, Vol. 16, Issue. 1, p. 31. This book seeks to understand Xenophon as an elite Athenian writing largely for an elite Athenian audience ...

As Xenophon’s anecdote reveals ... Following the meal, for example, guests would anoint themselves with perfume or put on garlands made of myrtle or flowers. Not just fashion accessories ...

Others, like Xenophon, aren’t convinced of the logic ... A quick check turns up plenty — for example, LCDR Radcliffe Denniston, awarded the Navy Cross posthumously after he was shot down ...

For example, it is not possible to obtain “knowledge ... In On Tyranny, from 1948, Xenophon is Strauss’s key witness for the ...

The chrysalis has an outer casing that is similar to that of the adult (it has wings for example, although as ... concept to the ancient Greeks. Xenophon, writing in the 4th century BC, said ...

The prose is leaden and mealy-mouthed, and the rhetorical formula of every chapter will be immediately familiar to anyone who ...

Finally, in discussions that range up to the middle of the twentieth century, they explore particularly telling examples of the conflict between economic thinking and moral values. "a valueable and ...

This is part of a running series of essays by Iskander Rehman, entitled “Applied History,” which seeks, through the study of the history of ...

Memory’s description in philosophical history is dominated by static, preservationist metaphors (for example, Plato’s wax tablet and ... from Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Isocrates, and Lysias, ...

See, for example, Platias and Koliopoulos ... Kagan, Fall of the Athenian Empire, pp. 325–79; Xenophon, Hellenika, ed. Robert B. Strassler (New York: Pantheon, 2009), 1.6.29–2.23. 36. F or insightful ...