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9781587319662

Xenophon's Socratic Discourse

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  • ISBN13:

    9781587319662

  • ISBN10:

    1587319667

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-06-30
  • Publisher: St Augustine Pr Inc

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Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Christopher Bruell
The Oeconomicus, by Xenophon
1(80)
Xenophon's Socratic Discourse
81(130)
Leo Strauss
Introduction
81(2)
The title and the opening
83(4)
A definition of household management (Chapter I)
87(13)
The turn to the examination of Kritoboulos and Socrates (Chapter II)
100(7)
Socrates' promises (Chapter III)
107(6)
The case for farming---I (Chapter IV)
113(7)
The case for farming---II (Chapter V)
120(5)
A simplifying retrospect and a complicating prospect (Chapter VI)
125(6)
Gynaikologia---I: Marriage according to the gods and according to the law (Chapter VII)
131(9)
Gynaikologia---II: Order, I (Chapter VIII)
140(6)
Gynaikologia---III: Order, II (Chapter IX)
146(7)
Gynaikologia---IV: Cosmetics (Chapter X)
153(6)
Andrologia (Chapter XI)
159(8)
How to educate stewards to good will and diligence (Chapter XII)
167(4)
How to educate stewards to rulership (Chapter XIII)
171(3)
How to educate stewards to justice (Chapter XIV)
174(4)
Transition to the art of farming (Chapter XI)
178(4)
The nature of the land the the proper beginning of the account of farming (Chapter XVI)
182(5)
Sowing as well as reaping, threshing, and winnowing (Chapters XVII--XVIII)
187(6)
Planting (Chapter XIX)
193(4)
The art of farming and love of farming (Chapter XX)
197(8)
The art of farming and the kingly man (Chapter XXI)
205(6)
Index 211

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