Lessons from the Past: The Moral Use of History in Fourth-Century Prose

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Contents
Introduction 1 chapter one The Intellectual Context 5 chapter two The Menexenus: Plato’s Critique of Political Rhetoric 38 chapter three Xenophon’s Hellenica 65 chapter four Ephorus’s History 113 chapter five Theopompus’s Philippica 143 Conclusion 176 Bibliography 183 Index 199 ...