Le salut par la parole. Les discours dans l’Anabase de Xénophon
- Submitting institution
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The University of Liverpool
- Unit of assessment
- 15 - Archaeology
- Output identifier
- 13129
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- XÉNOPHON ET LA RHÉTORIQUE
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- ISBN
- 978-2-84050-924-0
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 29 - Classics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- By the standards of Greek historiography, Anabasis contains a great deal of direct speech. After a discussion of some aspects of the reception of this fact in later Greek literature, the essay seeks to quantify and analyse the oratio recta of the Anabasis, highlighting the diversity (there is both formal speech-making and more conversational material), the uneven spread across the work, the variety within particular categories of examples, and the intimate embedding of formal and informal rhetoric into the story. Anabasis is at first sight a tale of marching and fighting, but it is a tale driven by talk.
