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5 days ago · This excerpt concerns the education of children and marriage arrangements in Sparta and demonstrates that women in Sparta were often accorded more independence than women in other Greek city-states. This source is a part of the Women in Classical Athens and Sparta teaching module. Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians, c. 387 B.C.E.
3 days ago · Shane Brennan, Associate Professor of History and Classics at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh and author of Xenophon's Anabasis: A Socratic History, joins the show to talk about why the Anabasis remains an important part of the Western canon of military writing. ️ Times • 01:30 Introduction
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Both anabasis and catabasis occur via Purgatory. I might say "catharsis", as in the purification/cleansing of one's soul in Purgatory, or "moral metamorphosis". For Dante, Purgatory is not only a place where you pay the debts you incurred when you sinned: it is in fact the place where you reflect on those sins, and where you change the ...
1 day ago · Dalle antologie ai margini, e ritorno. Un capitolo nell’appropriazione di Euripide nel Rinascimento & The first English Translation of Xenophon’s Hiero: Greek Literature and Politics in Jacobean England. Post author: Sidia Fiorato; Post published: 6 June 2024; Post category: Announcements / Seminars
3 days ago · An English translation of the Ashokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka, first written in the second century A.D. Emperor of India during the third century B.C. and one of the most important rulers in the history of Buddhism, Asoka has hitherto been studied in the West primarily from his edicts and rock inscriptions in ...
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- 2020
5 days ago · Julius Caesar was not the first classical writer to adopt the expedient of describing his own actions in the third person, to give his account of his own actions a false air of “objectivity”; the Athenian writer Xenophon had done the same thing in his Anabasis (The March Up Country). But if Xenophon pioneered that technique, Caesar made it ...
5 days ago · The most fearsome military force of its day had been defeated by the Sacred Band of Thebes, a shock troop of 150 gay couples. As Pride Month begins, more than a decade after the repeal of “don ...
