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<p class=MsoNormal>My Fellow Xenophonistas,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Couple of quick thoughts. I agree with other comments
that Xen. is a little harder to warm up to than, say, Thucydides. I will
have to give it a another read through before our call next week. That
said, I found the trial/defense of the Athenian Generals (end of Book 1) was as
gripping as other histories and Alcibiades always spices things up (when the
going gets tough, he sails to his own castle in the Chersonese for crying out
loud!). I also think Xen. Slips in a little moral editorializing the same
way other historians do. For example, 1.6.12-18, where Kallikratidas
declares that “not one of the Hellenes would be enslaved if he had
anything to do with it..”. Of course, he then sells the
“Athenians who made up the garrison and all the prisoners who were
slaves.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Lysander and the beginning of Book 2 are also pretty
gripping in my opinion. I look forward to the discussions. One
other note: I learned a trick from Mark Casey (I think) when we were reading
Herodotus. If you’re really interested in tracking a
character like Alcibiades or Agesilaos, go to the VERY detailed Index. We
started this with Croesus, King of Lydia, who was so protean in the <i>Histories</i>.
The Index is so detailed that you can just about read the entries as a story
and follow the character development. For that matter, read the entries
under alliances/allies if you want to see what a wicked web they wove.
This addition also has the awesome, short bios in Appendix M, but I still
recommend you peruse the Index. It really helped me/us understand
Croesus’s complexities and I see the same thing unfolding here.
Thank goodness for the Bob Strassler and the Landmarks. Really, if there
were a Pulitzer for presenting difficult texts to general audiences, he and the
Landmark team would win it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I have not had time to look at the other, fragmentary histories
in Appendices O and P. Anybody else?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cheers and happy reading!<o:p></o:p></p>
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