XENOPHON. Trans. from the Greek by John Newman

History of the Affairs of Greece. In Seven Books: Being a Continuation of the Peloponnesian War; from the Time where Thucydides ends, to the Battel at Mantinea. To which is prefexed an Abstract of Thucydides...

London printed by R. H. for William Freeman 1685, Prefaces, 459, (3) p. 18 cm. Hardcover. Full leather, minor wear to outer hinges, some nibbling on front cover, marbled edges. Owner's bookplate, sm. reference library label inside front board. Dampstain on bottom corner throughout to varying degrees, some minor spotting. Listed in Lowndes. Begins with 'A brief account of the land and naval forces of the ancient Greeks'. Hellenica, as this book is known, is Xenophon's attempt to imitate the method of Thucydides. Xenophon write of Greek history from 411 B.C., the point where Thucydides stops, to 362 B.C. He has a marked prejudice in favor of the Spartans. (Feder, Handbook of Classical Literature). The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature states that the two best works of Xenophon are 'Anabasis' and the 'Hellenica' or History of Greece. 'Xenophon's writings reveal him as a lover of the country and of rural sports, a keen soldier, pious to the gods, an easy, lucid, and agreeable writer, sensible but not profound, an enthusiastic amateur rather than a specialist in anything, above all a very natural human being behind the author.' Bookplate of Richard Hopton of Herefordshire, a barrister, who was afterwards one of the Welsh judges in the reigns of Charles II and James II. He was married to the devotional writer Susanna Hopton. (DNB).

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