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- Title
Finding a New Sophist: On Polyphony and Xenophon's Cyropaedia.
- Authors
McCloskey, Benjamin
- Abstract
In this article, I read Xenophon's Cyropaedia alongside one passage of his Cynegeticus. In doing so, I argue three things: first, the narrator of the Cyropaedia is a Sophist—at least according to the definition offered by the narrator of the Cynegeticus; second, the narrator of the Cynegeticus is not the same character as the narrator of the Cyropaedia; and third, the perspective of at least one of these narrators cannot represent Xenophon's own perspective. To mitigate the awkwardness of this anonymity, I refer to the narrator of the Cynegeticus as "the Hunter," the narrator of the Cyropaedia as "the Historian," and the narrator of the Memorabilia as "the Memoirist."
- Subjects
XENOPHON, ca. 430-354 B.C.; PART songs; SOUVENIRS (Keepsakes); ANONYMITY; NARRATORS; HISTORIANS
- Publication
Illinois Classical Studies, 2022, Vol 47, Issue 2, p269
- ISSN
0363-1923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/23285265.47.2.04