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6 days ago · Perhaps I need a serious palate cleanse with some new books of completely different scope. Or perhaps I need to muscle through Xenophon's Hellenica so I can move on to more interesting aspects of the Classical Greek world.
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May 11, 2024 · Xenophon, “Hellenica” Footnotes: In the second summer month of the Spartan calendar, equivalent to the Attic month of Metageitnion (roughly late July to late August), the Gymnopaidiai were celebrated, ‘ and there is another festival, the Gymnopaidiai, which are among the Spartans by way of education…’ (Pausanias III, 11, 9).
3 days ago · The main sources concerning the Peloponnesian war (431–404 BC) are Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War and Xenophon's Hellenica. Both historians were also Athenian generals who lived through the war. The war began in 431 BC over a dispute between the cities of Corcyra and Epidamnus.
3 days ago · According to Xenophon, in the beginning of the 4th century BC Pella was the largest Macedonian city. It was the birthplace and seats of Philip II, in 382 BC and of Alexander the Great, his son, in 356 BC. It was already a walled city in the time of Philip II and he made the city of great international importance.
3 days ago · Ancient Greek literature. Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, set in an idealized archaic ...
May 16, 2024 · Xenophon went and put the question to Apollo, to which of the gods he must pray and do sacrifice, so that he might best accomplish his intended journey and return in safety, with good fortune. Then Apollo answered him: "To such and such gods must thou do sacrifice," and when he had returned home he reported to Socrates the oracle.
