Tyrtaeus, the king of Assyria: Xenophon’s “Cyropaedia” and education of warriors in Sparta
The article proposes that the oration of the king of Assyria in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia (III, 3, 44-45) can contain the allusion to, or rather a parody on, one of the elegies of Tyrtaeus (fragm. 8 Prato, vv. 11-20). Both the Assyrian king, a tyrant and Xenophon’s paradigmatic loser, and the famous mar...
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Hypothekai
2020-08-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.hypothekai.ru/images/Nomera/3/025-040-Bar.pdf |