The Economist
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~37,900 words · 180 passages
Cite this work
- APAXenophon. (n.d.). The Economist. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/the-economist
- MLAXenophon. "The Economist." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/the-economist.
- ChicagoXenophon. The Economist. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/the-economist.
What it is about
A dialogue on managing a household and an estate: work, servants, the wife, the land. The Greek title, Oikonomikos, is the root of the word economy.
Context and history
The first Western treatise on household management, and the most detailed source we have on daily life and on a woman's role in classical Athens. Cicero translated it into Latin as a young man, and European agronomy read it into the eighteenth century.
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. The Economist by Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns THE ECONOMIST [1] A Treatise on the Science of the Household in the form of a Dial← Back to Xenophon