Xenophon s Spartan Constitution

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Xenophon s Spartan Constitution

Author	: Michael Lipka
File Size	: 46,5 Mb
Publisher	: Walter de Gruyter
Language	: English
Release Date	: 09 August 2012
ISBN	: 9783110887242
Pages	: 312 pages

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Xenophon s Spartan Constitution by Michael Lipka Book PDF Summary

This work presents a new critical edition of The Spartan Constitution, a treatise in state philosophy attributed to the historian Xenophon (c. 430 - c. 355 B. C.). The Greek text, reconstructed on the basis of extant manuscript sources, is prefaced by an introduction and supplemented by a critical commentary and an English translation. The introduction discusses the problem of the text's authenticity and dating and provides a comprehensive account of its sources, reception, language, style and structure as well as an analysis of the manuscript sources and the textual tradition. The commentary addresses linguistic as well as historical problems.

Xenophon s Spartan Constitution by Michael Lipka

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