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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780331538533

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Excerpt from The Works of Xenophon, Vol. 3 of 4: Three Essays: On the Duties of a Cavalry General, on Horsemanship, and on Hunting The interest attaching to the three minor works of Xenophon, translated in this volume, will be found, i think, altogether disproportionate to the length of the treatises themselves, which, if small in compass, are rich in matter of a kind to fix the attention of many different readers. To the critical scholar the writings, as handed down to us, are interesting for many special reasons, which I need not further dwell on here to the student of Greek literature they are important as specimens of a type of writing somewhat analogous to the review article familiar to us in the journalistic literature of our own day. As the product of a particular author's pen, they throw light at once on the problems of the age in which he wrote and reveal certain mental and moral characteristics of the man himself. In other words, they have, like all the writings commonly attributed to Xenophon, not only their peculiar literary worth, but also a certain biographic value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Works of Xenophon, Vol. 3 of 4 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Xenophon, Vol. 3 of 4: Three Essays: On the Duties of a Cavalry General, on Horsemanship, and on Hunting The interest attaching to the three minor works of Xenophon, translated in this volume, will be found, i think, altogether disproportionate to the length of the treatises themselves, which, if small in compass, are rich in matter of a kind to fix the attention of many different readers. To the critical scholar the writings, as handed down to us, are interesting for many special reasons, which I need not further dwell on here to the student of Greek literature they are important as specimens of a type of writing somewhat analogous to the review article familiar to us in the journalistic literature of our own day. As the product of a particular author's pen, they throw light at once on the problems of the age in which he wrote and reveal certain mental and moral characteristics of the man himself. In other words, they have, like all the writings commonly attributed to Xenophon, not only their peculiar literary worth, but also a certain biographic value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.