Xenophon on violence / edited by Aggellos Kapellos.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The notion of violence (bia, hybris) in Xenophon's work / Cinzia Bearzot -- Apronoētos Orgē : the role of anger in Xenophon's vision of history / Paolo A. Tuci -- Lawfulness and violence in decision-making in Xenophon's Hellenica / P. J. Rhodes -- Violence and civil strife in Xenophon's Hellenica / Frances Pownall -- Minor infantry defeats and Spartan deaths in Xenophon's Hellenica / Edith Foster -- Violence and the state in Xenophon : a study of three passages / Edward Harris -- The rhetoric of violence in Xenophon's Anabasis / Nathan Crick -- Xenophon's : thinking war and empire in the Cyropaedia / Bogdan Burliga -- The Greek reaction to the slaughter of the Athenian captives at Aegospotami and Xenophon's Hellenica / Aggelos Kapellos -- Xenophon on the violence of the thirty / Andrew Wolpert.

This volume examines the issue of violence in Xenophon's works, who lived in circumstances of war for many years. All the papers address issues of violence from different aspects. The exclusive focus on this issue is justified, since no previous detailed study exists on the subject. Most of the chapters focus on the Hellenica, because this work records more aspects of violence than the rest of his works. The volume is more concerned with examining violence in practice rather than the theory of violence, and violent practices are more frequently recorded in the Hellenica, which is the main historical work of Xenophon. This volume attempts to provide a comprehensive study of the subject of violence in Xenophon's works and to demonstrate the coherence and consistency of his thought on it. This work aspires to be a contribution to classical scholarship since it attempts to: (1) shed further light on the literary character of Xenophon's oeuvre; (2) offer new interpretation of passages and themes; and (3) put emphasis on passages that scholars have not pointed out and which offer important insights to the thought of Xenophon.