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Ch. 3. Piety in Xenophon's Theory of Leadership
Histos, 2016 The central theme in Xenophon’s writings is to isolate and articulate the qualities of the ideal leader. His ideal leader secures consent to his leadership, treats his followers as friends, and works for their mutual success as a group with shared ...
Michael J. Flower
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Ch. 5. Novel Leaders for Novel Armies: Xenophon's Focus on Willing Obedience in Context
Histos, 2016 Although the universalising bent of Xenophon’s leadership theory shows Socratic influence, its prioritisation of the general and the author’s fame for leading the Cyreans suggests an equal foundation in his battlefield experiences.
Richard Fernando Buxton
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 335-350, May/June 2024.Abstract Along the lower course of the Rioni and several minor rivers, more than 70 settlement mounds (local name: Dikhagudzuba) have been identified by field surveys and remote sensing techniques. They give evidence of a formerly densely populated landscape in the coastal lowlands on the Colchian plain (western Georgia) and have been dated to the ...
Hannes Laermanns +7 more
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Ostium, 2008 The text tries to find as much as possible references and information by classical authors about the main character in Plato’s dialogue Meno. This person is mentioned by Xenophon, Thukydides, Strabo, Plutarchus, Diodorus Siculus, Homer, Dinarchus and ...
Martina Bohačiaková
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Ethnophilosophy as a global development goal
Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 147-161, April 2024.Abstract The ethnophilosophy debate in African philosophy has been primarily concerned with the nature and future direction of African philosophy, but this paper approaches the debate in search of lessons about philosophy in general. The paper shows how this ongoing debate has been obscured by varying understandings of “ethnophilosophy” and that a de ...
James Tartaglia
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What taxpayers, governments and tax economists do – and what they should do
Fiscal Studies, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 7-19, March 2024.Abstract The distinction between positive economics – describing economic programmes, situations and conditions as they exist – and normative economics – prescribing policies – has a long history. It is an especially important distinction in public economics, which by its nature concerns the actions of government.
Joel Slemrod
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Notas textuales y prosopográficas sobre Plin., Nat. XXIX 7-8
Emerita, 2010 El pasaje de Plinio el Viejo (Nat. XXIX 7-8) permite a través de una nueva fijación del texto comprobar noticias sobre el médico del emperador Claudio Stertinius Xenophon hasta ahora sólo supuestas.
Marc Mayer i Olivé
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Xenophon’s political philosophy: a project for the whole of Greece
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2018 [full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] This paper discusses Xenophon’s political philosophy and its Greek context. One of the major themes running through Xenophon’s works is leadership, which he tackles implicitly or explicitly ...
Alius Jaskelevičius
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Plato – The Motto of Delphi of the Alcibiades I: Between Emphases and Retractions of the Socratics?
Peitho, 2014 The present article aims to examine whether this Platonic dialogue can be regarded as polemical and competing with the similar educational proposals put forward by Xenophon and Antisthenes for the young Alcibiades aspiring to power in the city of Athens.
Giuseppe Mazzara
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Intra-Socratic Polemics: The Symposia of Plato and Xenophon
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2010 Textual relationships between the two Symposia suggest that Xenophon wrote first, prompting Plato to write Socrates' critique of Phaedrus, to which Xenophon responded by appending his ch. 8.
Gabriel Danzig
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