By E. Buzzetti
An interpretation of Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus, paralleling the textual content to Machiavelli's The Prince, and concentrating on the query: How did the Socratic schooling support Xenophon reconcile morality with effectiveness, the noble with the nice, as a ruler?
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3). Yet the second and central crime—the Greeks had been cheated out of their wages—had been perpetrated by another man. 36 Xenophon thus slanders the governor of Byzantium—admittedly, a thuggish man—at the center of his speech. He does so to help overcome the soldiers’ resistance. A fourth example occurs earlier in the Anabasis, where Xenophon tries to persuade the captains of Proxenos to fight an all-out war against the Persians and abandon any thought of negotiating with the faithless King. They must expect the worst, Xenophon warns, if they ever come into the King’s power.
A of the Paris family. The lacunae are less frequent in the first four books of MS. C since it was corrected with a (lost) MS. that must have been excellent. Indeed, the primacy of MS. C is less pronounced in the last three books of the Anabasis because it was either not corrected, or corrected with inferior MSS. (see Masqueray pp. 30–31). 62 POLI T IC A L LI F E , SO C R AT IC E DUC AT ION 27 the Greeks] let f ly their arrows and no one missed his man—even if one were very eager, it would not have been easy to miss—Tissaphernē s very quickly retreated out of range and the other units retreated as well.
77 For a powerful linguistic argument in support of the authenticity of the summaries, see Høeg (1950) pp. 162–64. In particular, Høeg states: “En effet, prétendre que les résumé s sont dus à Xénophon, c’est prétendre que la division en livres est xénophontéenne, ou 30 X E NOPHON T H E SO C R AT IC PR I NC E movement, the Anabasis has been studied in several monographs more recently. With one partial exception, however, these recent books do not treat the Anabasis as a work of political philosophy, let alone as a study in Socratic rule and an introduction to philosophy.