2010/11/01 by Tim Rood · 44 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Classical Antiquity Studies #Byzantine Studies and History #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Greeks #Meaning (existential) #Representation (politics) #Repetition (rhetorical device) #Empire #Space (punctuation) #History #Variation (astronomy) #Literature #Ancient history #Philosophy #Epistemology #Art #Linguistics #Politics #Physics #Law
paper · doi:10.1017/s0075426910000042
published in The Journal of Hellenic Studies 130, 51-66 (Cambridge University Press)
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Abstract This paper analyses one aspect of Xenophon's representation of space, focusing on the famous stages-and-parasangs formula employed by Xenophon in the Anabasis . It starts by discussing the meaning of his terms, and then explores patterns of repetition and variation in his account of the march, split into three sections (the marches upcountry, to the sea and along the coast). Rather than explaining Xenophon's usage in terms of sources, it suggests that variations in the marching formula elaborate the successive stages of the Greeks' encounter with the spaces of the Achaemenid Empire.