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Rosie Harman offers a sparkling analysis of the ways in which the representation of visual experience in Xenophon's historical works - Hellenica, Anabasis and Cyropaedia - invites readerly engagement with ideological problems facing the Greek elite of the early fourth century BCE. Addressing the politics of viewing in Xenophon against the backdrop of modern theory as well as ancient Greek cultural contexts of viewing and spectatorship, this sophisticated study shows how Xenophon's texts prompt readers to occupy multiple, often conflicting political positions, and thereby experience for themselves the problems faced by historical actors. -- Emily Baragwanath, Associate Professor of Classics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This book is a fine addition to the growing number of books on Xenophon. Its focus on the political implications of 'viewing', as construed in Hellenica, Anabasis, and Cyropaedia, rehabilitates Xenophon as a complex thinker and a cunning literary artist. -- Luuk Huitink, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This book is a fine addition to the growing number of books on Xenophon. Its focus on the political implications of 'viewing', as construed in Hellenica, Anabasis, and Cyropaedia, rehabilitates Xenophon as a complex thinker and a cunning literary artist. -- Luuk Huitink, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rosie Harman offers a sparkling analysis of the ways in which the representation of visual experience in Xenophon’s historical works – Hellenica, Anabasis and Cyropaedia – invites readerly engagement with ideological problems facing the Greek elite of the early fourth century BCE. Addressing the politics of viewing in Xenophon against the backdrop of modern theory as well as ancient Greek cultural contexts of viewing and spectatorship, this sophisticated study shows how Xenophon’s texts prompt readers to occupy multiple, often conflicting political positions, and thereby experience for themselves the problems faced by historical actors. -- Emily Baragwanath, Associate Professor of Classics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This book is a fine addition to the growing number of books on Xenophon. Its focus on the political implications of ‘viewing’, as construed in Hellenica, Anabasis, and Cyropaedia, rehabilitates Xenophon as a complex thinker and a cunning literary artist. -- Luuk Huitink, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Readers interested in political theory, ancient history, and narrative technique will benefit from Harman’s study… The Politics of Viewing demonstrates decisively that the reciprocal relationship between the one who sees and the one who is seen is never straightforward and that, when scenes of viewing involve issues of Greek identity or Greek values, audiences can experience multiple, contradictory reactions at the same time. * Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought *

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Rosie Harman is Lecturer in Greek Historiography at University College, London, UK.

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