Timocrates’ Mission to Greece—Once Again
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20052404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guido Schepens (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 213-241 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Xenophon (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004234192_008 |
| OpenAlex | W2487927598 |
| ISBN | 9789004234192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
The ancient Greek debate on the causes of the Corinthian War still continues in modern scholarly variance of opinion over the proper weight that should be assigned to such factors as Persian involvement and Greek economic versus strictly political motives for waging war against Sparta. Xenophon tells us how the Persian chiliarch Tithraustes sent the Rhodian Timocrates with an amount of fifty talents to Greece, ordering him ?to distribute it among the leaders of the cities on the condition that they start a war against the Lacedaemonians?. The author takes the accounts of Xenophon and the author of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia at face value, looks at their most salient features and tries to understand them in the larger historiographical context of their works. Such an inquiry also inevitably raises the question whether and how the two versions under discussion?which are roughly contemporaneous?relate to one another. Keywords:Corinthian War; Greece; Hellenica Oxyrhynchia; Spartans; Timocrates; Xenophon
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Face (sociological concept) · Face value · Historiography · Linguistics · Literature · Originality · Persian · Political science · Politics · Salient · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics) · Variance (accounting) · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
Greek Military Service in the Ancient Near East, 401–330 BCE
Xenophon on Leadership
Xenophon and Greek Political Thought
Xenophon’s Authorial Voice
Xenophon’s Changing Fortunes in the Modern World
Xenophon’s Place in Fourth-Century Greek Historiography
Xenophon’s Influence in Imperial Greece
Xenophon and his Times
Xenophon’s Language and Expression
Xenophon on Persia
Xenophon and Athens
Xenophon’s Views on Sparta
Xenophon’s Narrative Style
Xenophon as a Historian
Xenophon
Epilogue
Xenophon and the Instruction of Princes
The Character and Function of Speeches in Xenophon
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
Xenophon and Greek Philosophy
The Speeches of Theban Ambassadors in Greek Literature (404-362 B.C.)
The Historical Context of the Reply to the Satraps Inscription (IG IV 556)
| Citations per year | 2.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2019 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |