Narrative Manner and Xenophon's More Routine Hellenica

To gain a balanced impression of Xenophon's Hellenica the reader has to grapple with the preponderance of military narrative. Most of his narrative is about warfare, which had been an integral part of ancient experience and a dominant theme in the literary tradition since Homer. It does not largely consist of character evaluations, nor those “purple passages,” old chestnuts such as the death of Theramenes, into which he intrudes his judgment for praise, and certainly not the representation of women, or the barbarian, or other themes he alludes to only occasionally.

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