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Xenophon: Poroi (Revenue-Sources) (Hardcover)
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Xenophon: Poroi (Revenue-Sources) (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Ancient History Series
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This volume showcases for the first time in the Clarendon Ancient
History Series one of the best-known prose authors of classical
Athens: Xenophon. Poroi (or, Revenue-Sources) was the final work of
his large and varied output, written in the mid-350s BCE at a time
when Athens had failed to prevent the collapse of her second Aegean
'empire', and was impoverished and demoralized in consequence. Back
in Athens after a lifetime abroad, the elderly Xenophon took an
optimistic view of the plight of his fellow-citizens: though their
days as a free-spending imperial power may have been over, they
could fall back on the city's own, unique assets - both human (the
large community of resident and visiting foreigners) and material
(the natural resources of Attica itself, notably the silver-mines)
- strategically exploiting them in order to set the city on the
road to peace and prosperity. Xenophon fleshed out this general
position with many specific proposals, in doing so situating Poroi
not only in a tradition of early economic thought, but also in the
realm of practical politics. Framed by a General Introduction and
the first-ever full Commentary on the work in English, this new and
unprecedentedly accurate translation offers an authoritative yet
accessible overview of the text, its context, and its historical,
socio-political, and economic implications that will be invaluable
to both students new to the work and to more experienced scholars.
Challenging the view that there is a significant overlap between
Xenophon's ideas and the policies associated (in the 350s and 340s)
with Euboulos, it argues, rather, that Poroi was ahead of its time
and in fact anticipated the programme of Athens' leading statesman
of the 330s and 320s: Lykourgos.
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