Word: xenophon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week Greece's three warring political groups swallowed hard and chose the latter. In the new government that was . sworn in last week, conservatives, socialists and Communists are for the first time ever steering the ship of state in unison. The new coalition, which is led by Prime Minister Xenophon Zolotas, 85, a former governor of the Bank of Greece, will remain in office until new elections in April...
This powerful and moving story has always been surrounded by mystery: Why would Athens, the cradle of democracy and free speech, prosecute its most famous philosopher? Accounts of the trial by Plato and Xenophon, both disciples of Socrates', suggest that the Athenians were simply tired of being prodded toward virtue by a self-styled gadfly. Retired Journalist I.F. Stone, something of a gadfly himself, has a different, iconoclastic answer. In this engaging ramble through Hellenic history and philology, Stone argues persuasively that the beloved Socrates was in reality a coldhearted, elitist, pro-Spartan snob who was openly contemptuous of Athens...
...instructor, who holds a master's in history from UCLA, fires questions that leave no room for faked answers: "What does Herodotus say? Plutarch? Xenophon?" demands Paul Mertens, 53. And that is just for starters. "Where do they agree and disagree?" he asks. "Why? How much of a democracy was Athens...
...school with tales of bold Westerners challenging sinister enchanters in the East. The heroes of antiquity, the knights-errant and the pathfinders of empire, symbolized virtues that quickened young hearts. But mercantile Britain offered few opportunities for a romantic. "Where was the use of valor and a knowledge of Xenophon and all the rest of the accoutrements?" Glazebrook inquires. "He had put on knight's armor to play croquet...
...century portraits by Lysippos, Alexander's chosen artist. In that head at least are both the athlete and the thinker, the head atilt with speculation or a reflex. Yet Alexander is not there either-not the Alexander who strolled with Aristotle; or the one who pored over Xenophon; or the Alexander who would only run in the Olympic Games against other kings, since they would not throw the race to him; or the Alexander who envied Achilles because Homer had made him immortal...