The Sportsman On Hunting, a Sportsman's Manual, Commonly Called Cynegeticus
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~23,800 words · 113 passages
Cite this work
- APAXenophon. (n.d.). The Sportsman On Hunting, a Sportsman's Manual, Commonly Called Cynegeticus. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/the-sportsman-on-hunting-a-sportsman-s-manual-commonly-called-cynegeticus
- MLAXenophon. "The Sportsman On Hunting, a Sportsman's Manual, Commonly Called Cynegeticus." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/the-sportsman-on-hunting-a-sportsman-s-manual-commonly-called-cynegeticus.
- ChicagoXenophon. The Sportsman On Hunting, a Sportsman's Manual, Commonly Called Cynegeticus. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/the-sportsman-on-hunting-a-sportsman-s-manual-commonly-called-cynegeticus.
What it is about
A manual of hunting with dogs: breeds, scent, nets, and a closing praise of hunting as training of character.
Context and history
The oldest surviving treatise on hunting. Its final section, defending hunting as a school of virtue and attacking the sophists, has made some scholars doubt the authorship: it sounds like Xenophon, but the tone does not quite match the rest.
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. ON HUNTING A Sportsman's Manual Commonly Called CYNEGETICUS I To the gods themselves is due the discovery, to Apollo and Artemis, p
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