Agesilaus
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~14,500 words · 69 passages
Cite this work
- APAXenophon. (n.d.). Agesilaus. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/agesilaus
- MLAXenophon. "Agesilaus." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/agesilaus.
- ChicagoXenophon. Agesilaus. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/agesilaus.
What it is about
A eulogy of the Spartan king Agesilaus II, whom Xenophon knew and served.
Context and history
Openly laudatory and must be read as such: Xenophon had been exiled from Athens and lived on Spartan generosity. It stands as a document of what a fourth-century Greek thought a good ruler was, not as impartial biography.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though there is doubt about some of these) is: Work Number of books The Anabasis 7 The Hellenica 7 The Cyropaedia 8 The Memorabilia 4 The Symposium 1 The Economist 1 On Horsemanship 1 The Sportsman 1 The Cavalry General 1 The Apology 1 On Revenues 1 The Hiero 1 The Agesilaus 1 The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2 Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical marks have been lost. AGESILAUS An Encomium The date of Agesilaus's death is uncertain--360← Back to Xenophon