title: Interpreting the text of Pseudo-Xenophon
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metadata.value: Tumans, Harijs
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T11:24:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T11:24:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Tumans H. Interpreting the text of Pseudo-Xenophon. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 2, pp. 228–243.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6770
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the author’s opinion, the main paradox of the Athenaion Politeia (‘The Constitution of the Athenians’)
  consists in the fact that its author endeavoured to соmbine two opposite positions: those of
  а critic and apologist of Athenian democracy. Firstly, not only is the structure of the text aimed at making
  an apology for democracy, but the greatest part of the argument is devoted to justifying the most
  controversial aspects of democratic rule. Consequently, in spite of its apparently ideological ambiguity,
  the author’s main ideological trend is quite evident in the Athenaion Politeia. Secondly, this work well
  matches the context of contemporary sophistic rhetoric and sympotic literature, for in these genres
  the author was expected to take opposite positions alternately. Thirdly, it is quite possible that аt that
  period two ideologies could have coexisted in the same mind: old aristocratic values, based upon ethical
  postulates, and а new democratic ideology, based upon pragmatic principles. In such а situation
  political thinking and patriotism could naturally lead to victory of the new ideology, as it is attested
  in the Athenaion Politeia. The author concludes that Pseudo-Xenophon should be regarded as neither
  a “youngˮ, nor an “oldˮ oligarch, but rather а democrat of aristocratic or oligarchic origin. Refs 47.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pseudo-Xenophon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Oligarch
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Athenian Democracy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Critic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Apology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Interpreting the text of Pseudo-Xenophon
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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