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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:27.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If you have not seen it, the New York Review of Books has an
article on Hellenika titled: </span><span class=sifr-alternate><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.6pt'>From the Craze of
Achilles to the Wisdom of Xenophon</span></b></span><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.6pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h5><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/issues/2010/apr/29/">April 29, 2010</a><o:p></o:p></h5>
<h3>by <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/glen-bowersock/"><span
style='color:#333333;text-decoration:none'>G.W. Bowersock</span></a><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a
href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/apr/29/from-the-craze-of-achilles-to-the-wisdom-of-xenoph/">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/apr/29/from-the-craze-of-achilles-to-the-wisdom-of-xenoph/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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xenophon2010-bounces@readingodyssey.org
[mailto:xenophon2010-bounces@readingodyssey.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andre
Stipanovic<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 05, 2010 1:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> xenophon2010@readingodyssey.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xenophon] Interesting Xenophon quotes - Book 4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear
fellow Xenophon readers:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Nota
Bene:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Did you
know...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>that
Spartiates (full Spartan male citizens) served in the army till they reached
the age of <u>sixty</u>? (4.5.14c)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Book 4
concerns itself mostly with the land battles still raging in Greece itself.
Agesilaos is recalled from Asia Minor to help Sparta neutralize various
Greek city-states rebelling against Spartan hegemony in Greece (4.1-4.2).
Greek city-states like Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth are all being
funded and encouraged by the Persian king to attack Sparta. Xenophon
describes these conflicts at the Nemea River in the Peloponnese (4.2) and in
Agesilaos' march from the other direction through Boeotia and Thessaly (4.3).
Much of the fighting between Sparta and the other Greeks in alliance in
Book 4.4-5 centers around Corinth, which is tenaciously held under siege by the
anti-Spartan alliance and which Sparta is not able to completely subdue.
I always thought that the Spartans were able to conquer what they set
their minds to. Now I am not so sure. As I have recently read through
the Corinthian operations in Book 4, these quotes caught my attention.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>"Some
Spartans from the camp, holding their spears, were following as guards, and
they were being closely watched by those present, for those who are fortunate
and victorious always seem for some reason to be worth looking at." (p.
149)(4.5.6)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>"No
inasmuch as such a defeat was most unusual for the Spartans, there was much
grieving throughout the army - except for those whose sons, fathers, or
brothers had died in that battle: <i>these</i> men went around with
beaming faces, delighting in their personal misfortune, as if they had been
victors." (p. 151) (4.5.10)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>We will
talk about these quotes (and other questions I plan to send out) on our next
conference call on Monday May 10 @8pm EST. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>*Also,
check out one of our reader's, Jim Janicki's, interview on the Reading Odyssey
website. He shares his experience with reading books through Reading
Odyssey (he's read quite a few with us so far) and how he applies his readings
to his business and his life.*</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Andre</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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