THE LANDMARK XENOPHON'S HELLENIKA

Robert Strassler - Editor
John Marincola - Translator

Pantheon Books, NY., 2009, pgs, extensive maps, index, elaborate footnotes, annotations, 16 appendices, - Intoduction by David Thomas

Inroduction - David Thomas

Professor Thomas sucinctly describes the background, the years 480 - 411, in which Athens and Sparta first successfully defended Greece from the Persian Empire and then conducted fratricidal war between them with Persia seeking to take advantage where ever it can. He then notes that Xenophon (like Herodotus) presumes his readers know so much and therefore he leaves out information that we need. He supplies a summary outline of the period. He provides important information about Xenophon and his other works. Fifteen written works have been ascribed (or not) to Xenophon and have reached us. Considering how many works of other ancient authors are lost, this is remarkable itself. Probably the most well known today are the Cyropaedia and the Anabasis. Professor Thomas also compares Xenophon to Thucydides and other authors including Ephorus and Diodorus Siculus.

Editor's Preface - Robert Strassler

Book One: The Final Years of the Peloponnesian War, 411-406 B.C.

Book Two: Aigospotamoi; The Thirty at Athens, 406-403

Book Three: Spartan Military Operations in Asia, 401-395

Book Four: Spartan Victories on Land, Defeat at Sea, 395-388

Book Five: Sparta at the Height of its Power, 388-375

Book Six: Thebes Defeats Sparta and Invades Laconia, 375-369

Book Seven: The Great Battle of Mantineia Decides Nothing, 369-362

Appendix A - Peter Krentz - The Arginousai Affair

Appendix B - Peter Krentz - The Athenian Government and the Oligarchy of the Thirty

Appendix C - David Thomas - Chronological Problems in the Continuation

Appendix D - Christopher Tuplin - Persia in Xenophon's Hellenika

Appendix E - Paul Cartledge - Spartan Government and Society

Appendix F - Paul Cartledge - The Spartan Army and the Battle of Leuctra

Appendix G - Paul Cartledge - Agesilaos

Appendix H - P. J. Rhodes - Political Leagues (Other than Sparta's)

Appendix I - Thomas R. Martin - Units of Distance, Currency and Capacity in Xenophon's Hellenika

Appendix J - Christopher Blackwell - Ancient Greek Religion in the Time of Xenophon

Appendix K - Nicole Hirschfeld - Trireme Warfare in Xenophon's Hellenika

Appendix L - John W. I. Lee - Land Warfare in Xenophon's Hellenika

Apendix M - Skyler Balbus et al. - Brief Biographies of Important Characters

Appendix N - David Thomas - Compositional Theories of Xenophon's Hellenika

Appendix O - Peter Green translator - Selections from the Histories of Diodorus Siculus

Appendix P - John Marincola translator - Selected fragments of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia