Xenophon, Professional Military Vocabulary, and the Formation of the Literary Koine
August 2024
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Chapter
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Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism
From The Greek Commonwealth to The Commonwealth of Nations: Zimmern, Curtis, and a tale of two titles
February 2024
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Journal article
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Global Intellectual History
This article analyses the development of the notion of ‘commonwealth’ within the Round Table group in relation to two books: Alfred Zimmern’s The Greek Commonwealth (1911) and Lionel Curtis’ The Commonwealth of Nations (1916). Modern historians of International Relations have argued that the title of Zimmern’s book alluded to conceptions of the British empire as a ‘commonwealth’. Drawing on previously unused archival sources and on detailed study of the different editions of The Greek Commonwealth, this article shows that Zimmern’s title did not refer to any form of political organization larger than the city-state and that IR historians have wrongly read into Zimmern’s book both the idea of commonwealth and the reading of the Athenian empire developed by Lionel Curtis. The article explores Curtis’ development of the concept of commonwealth and its reception by Zimmern and other members of the Round Table, and sets the historical narrative Curtis offers in The Commonwealth of Nations against The Greek Commonwealth. It shows that, even though Curtis used Zimmern’s work as a source, he took issue with its presentation of Athens precisely in relation to the questions of imperial organization that were the Round Table’s central concern.
imperial federation, commonwealth, Alfred Zimmern, Lionel Curtis, the Round Table
Zimmern, Athens, and the British Empire: Ancient and Modern Imperialism in The Greek Commonwealth
January 2024
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Journal article
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Modern Intellectual History
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Dover, Oxford, and the study of classical literature: the making of a professional scholar
January 2023
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Chapter
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Scholarship and Controversy: Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover
A.E. Zimmern, Thucydides, and the emergence of modern disciplines
January 2022
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Chapter
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Thucydides in the Age of Extremes and Beyond. Academia and Politics
Emotions in Thucydides: revisiting the final battle in Syracuse Harbour
January 2022
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Chapter
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Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong
Mythical and Historical Time in Herodotus Scaliger, Jacoby, and the Chronographic Tradition
January 2022
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Chapter
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AUTHORITATIVE HISTORIAN
The Anabasis illustrated’
January 2022
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Chapter
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Xenophon’s Anabasis and its Reception
The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography
January 2022
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Edited book
Thucydides
January 2022
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Chapter
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Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
Xenophon
January 2022
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Chapter
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Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
Xenophon’s Anabasis and its Reception
January 2022
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Edited book
The Legacy of Xenophon's Anabasis
January 2021
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Chapter
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The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis
Xenophon de Halbattiker? Xenophons woordenschat, “zuiver” Attisch en de ontwikkeling van de Griekse historiografie’
December 2020
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Journal article
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Lampas
Anachronism and Antiquity
February 2020
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Book
From Ethnography to History Herodotean and Thucydidean Traditions in the Development of Greek Historiography
January 2020
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Chapter
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HERODOTUS IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
Xenophon: Anabasis Book III
March 2019
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Book
First comprehensive commentary on a section of Anabasis in English for a century, reflecting scholarly advances for students and scholars.
History
Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World
January 2019
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Edited book
Thucydides and Myth’
January 2019
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Chapter
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Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World
'Geographical and Historical Patterning in Diodorus Siculus’
January 2018
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Chapter
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Narrative in Hellenistic Historiography
Cato the Elder, Livy, and Xenophon's Anabasis
November 2017
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Journal article
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Mnemosyne
This article argues firstly that Cato the Elder’s account of a daring plan involving the tribune Caedicius in the First Punic War is modelled on a scene in Xenophon’s Anabasis. It then argues that Livy’s account of a heroic escape in the First Samnite War orchestrated by P. Decius Mus is modelled not just on the First Punic War episode described by Cato, as scholars have suggested, but on the same passage of Xenophon; it also proposes that Livy’s use of Xenophon may be mediated through Cato. The article then sets out other evidence for the use of Xenophon in Roman historiography and explores the implications of the proposed intertextuality for Roman self-positioning and for ideas of leadership and military hierarchy. The article as a whole suggests that the influence of Xenophon on Latin historiography is greater than has often been conceived.
Xenophon, intertextuality, Greek and Roman historiography, Cato the Elder
Polybius
January 2017
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Chapter
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Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature
Thucydides
January 2017
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Chapter
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The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 4705 Literary Studies
Thucydides, Sicily, and the Defeat of Athens
January 2017
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Journal article
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KTÈMA
Xenophon
January 2017
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Chapter
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Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature (Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative 4
‘Xenophon’s Changing Fortunes in the Modern World’
January 2017
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Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon
‘Je viens comme Thémistocle’: Napoleon and National Identity after Waterloo
May 2016
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Chapter
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Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century
Horoscopes of Empires: Future Ruins from Thucydides to Macaulay
March 2016
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Chapter
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Knowing Future Time In and Through Greek Historiography
Mapping spatial and temporal distance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and theories of human development
January 2016
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Chapter
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New Worlds out of Old Texts: Developing Techniques for the Spatial Analysis of Ancient Narratives
Subordinate officers in Xenophon's Anabasis
January 2016
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Journal article
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Histos
This chapter focuses on Xenophon’s treatment of divisions within the command structure presented in the Anabasis, and in particular on three military positions that are briefly mentioned—the taxiarch, ὑποστράτηγος, and ὑπολόχαγος. Arguing against the prescriptive military hierarchies proposed in earlier scholarship, it suggests that ‘taxiarch’ should be understood fluidly and that the appearance of both the ὑποστράτηγος and the ὑπολόχαγος may be due to interpolation. The chapter also includes discussion of two types of comparative material: procedures for replacing dead, absent, or deposed generals at Athens and Sparta in the Classical period, and the lexical development of subordinate positions with the prefix ὑπο-.
SBTMR
The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon
January 2016
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Chapter
This Companion, the first dedicated to the philosopher and historian Xenophon of Athens, gives readers a sense of why he has held such a prominent place in literary and political culture from antiquity to the present and has been a favourite author of individuals as diverse as Machiavelli, Thomas Jefferson, and Leo Tolstoy. It also sets out the major problems and issues that are at stake in the study of his writings, while simultaneously pointing the way forward to newer methodologies, issues, and questions. Although Xenophon's historical, philosophical, and technical works are usually studied in isolation because they belong to different modern genres, the emphasis here is on themes that cut across his large and varied body of writings. This volume is accessible to students and general readers, including those previously unfamiliar with Xenophon, and will also be of interest to scholars in various fields.
‘Self-Characterization and Political Thought in Xenophon’s Anabasis’
June 2015
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Chapter
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Fame and Infamy: Essays for Christopher Pelling on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and History
Political Thought in Xenophon: Straussian Readings of the Anabasis’
January 2015
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Journal article
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Polis
The Reception of Thucydides’ Archaeology
January 2015
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Chapter
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A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides
Space and Landscape in Xenophon’s Anabasis
January 2014
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Chapter
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Place, Space, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
Redeeming Xenophon: Historiographical Reception and the Transhistorical
June 2013
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Journal article
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Classical Reception Journal
The Cylonian Conspiracy: Thucydides and the Uses of the Past
January 2013
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Chapter
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Thucydides Between History and Literature
Xenophon and the Barberini: Pietro da Cortona's Sacrifice to Diana
January 2013
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Journal article
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Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon and the Picturesque
January 2012
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Chapter
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Xenophon: Ethical Principle and Historical Enquiry
Herodotus
January 2012
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Chapter
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Space in Ancient Greek Narrative
Polybius
January 2012
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Chapter
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Space in Ancient Greek Narrative
Polybius, Thucydides, and the First Punic War
January 2012
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Chapter
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Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius
The Plupast in Xenophon’s Hellenica
January 2012
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Chapter
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Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian
Thucydides
January 2012
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Chapter
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Space in Ancient Greek Narrative
Xenophon
January 2012
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Chapter
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Space in Ancient Greek Narrative
Black Sea Variations: Arrian’s Periplus
January 2011
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Journal article
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The Cambridge Classical Journal
American Anabasis
July 2010
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Book
Herodotus’ Proem: Space, Time, and the Origins of International Relations
