A History of Classical Greek Literature: the Prose Writers (With An Index to ...
A History of Classical Greek Literature: the Prose Writers (With An Index to ...
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Archibald Henry Sayce
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XENOPHON. § 472. Neither the birth nor the death of this remarkable and characteristic figure in Greek literature can now be fixed with any certainty, but for literary purposes we can approximate to them sufficiently. Most of his biographers have been misled by either of two mistakes : first, the accepting of the false legend that Socrates saved his life at the battle of Delium, a story implicitly contradicted by Alcibiades* evidently historical account of this retreat in Plato's Symposium; sec...ondly, the assumption that Xenophon was present, as a youth of foiuteen or fifteen, at his own Symposium^ an assumption in no manner warranted by his solitary opening remark, that he wishes to record the lighter conversations of eminent and refined men : olf ^f Trapayevo/xevoc ravra yiyvuKTKU), ^lyXwcai fioyXo/nai, The scene being laid at Athens in 420 B.C., would require us to assume 435 at latest for his birth, whereas Cobet has clearly shown * that he speaks of himself in the Anabasis as a very young man, and even specially numbers himself with those under thirty years of age.
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