The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika
Robert B. Strassler (View Bio)
Pantheon, 2009
From the editor of the widely praised LANDMARK THUCYDIDES and LANDMARK HERODOTUS, here is a new edition of XENOPHON'S HELLENIKA, the major primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.
Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particularly dramatic period during which the alliances among Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Persia were in constant flux. And along with the volumes of Herodotus and Thucydides, it completes an ancient narrative of the military and political history of classical Greece.
Illustrated, annotated, and filled with maps, this edition gives us a new and authoritative translation by John Marincola, an introduction by David Thomas, and fourteen appendices written by some of the premiere classical scholars at work today. And unlike any other edition of the Hellenika, it also includes the relevant texts of Diodorus Siculus and the Oxyrhynchus historian, which constitute the only contemporaneous works that can be used to assess Xenophon’s reliability and quality as a historian.
Like the two Landmark editions that preceded it, THE LANDMARK XENOPHON'S HELLENIKA is the most readable and comprehensive edition available of an essential history.
"More than a decade ago, Robert Strassler conceived the idea of presenting the great classics of Greek historiography in new translations with ample annotation, excellent maps, and contributions from major scholars. He calls his volumes Landmark editions, and indeed they are. There is nothing like them. With the publication of the first Landmark volume, covering Thucydides, it was apparent that for the first time a Greekless reader could study the text closely and critically, much as a professional classicist would. After Thucydides, Strassler produced the equally successful Landmark Herodotus. Now he has given us his Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika…. Strassler has assembled an outstanding team of contributors for his Xenophon volume." — G.W. Bowersock, The New York Review of Books