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Journal Article
L'ARTE DEL NARRARE E LE VOCI DI SENOFONTE: IO E NOI
2017
Overview
The article deals with the ist-person endings in Xenophon's works, especially in Cyropaedia and in the so-called treatises. In particular the alternation of the ist singular person and the ist plural one is analysed, and the author of the article engages the hypothesis that Cyropaedia is a collective work, for which Xenophon may actually have resorted to some collaborators, in a time when the various steps of the search for information, of composition and of revision weren't done, on many occasions, by only one author. The comparison with the poetic genre excludes the possibility that Greek literature, both archaic and classical, has ever turned to the extensive, acquainted use of the royal \"we\"; therefore the alternation of the ist singular person and the ist plural one may indicate the author's intention to mingle with an actual \"general public\" or rather – depending on the circumstances – to reaffirm strictly personal positions. This assumption is also in line with the treatises records, which give the image of an author who pays great attention, in his opposition to Plato, both to the different reasoning strategies and to the definition and improvement of the hypomnemata genre.
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FABRIZIO SERRA EDITORE
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