The library of Xenophon

1. Homer 4 authority · 2 neutral 6 citations

   Symposium

   chapter 4 · chapter 8

   3 citations

   Memorabilia

   book 4

   2 citations

   Apology

   1 citation

   You know, doubtless, that the sage Homer has written about practically everything pertaining to man.

2. Iliad Homer 3 authority 3 citations

   Memorabilia

   book 1 · book 3

   2 citations

   Symposium

   chapter 3

   1 citation

   My father was anxious to see me develop into a good man, said Niceratus, and as a means to this end he compelled me to memorize all of Homer;

3. Odyssey Homer 1 authority · 1 neutral · 1 endorsed 3 citations

   Memorabilia

   book 1 · book 2

   2 citations

   Symposium

   chapter 3

   1 citation

   My father was anxious to see me develop into a good man, said Niceratus, and as a means to this end he compelled me to memorize all of Homer;

4. Oracle at Delphi Delphic oracle 2 authority 2 citations

   Anabasis

   book 6

   1 citation

   Cyropaedia

   book 7

   1 citation

   But pray tell me, Croesus, he resumed, what has come of your responses from the oracle at Delphi?

5. Works and Days Hesiod 2 endorsed 2 citations

   Memorabilia

   book 1 · book 2

   2 citations

   He was charged with explaining this line as an injunction to refrain from no work, dishonest or disgraceful, but to do anything for gain.

6. Heracles 1 authority 1 citation

   Cyropaedia

   book 1

   1 citation

   O Heracles, father, said Cyrus with a laugh, what a man you say I must become!

7. Hippocrates 1 neutral 1 citation

   Hellenica

   book 1

   1 citation

   Meanwhile a letter dispatched to Lacedaemon by Hippocrates, vice-admiral under Mindarus, was intercepted and taken to Athens;

8. Pausanias 1 refuted 1 citation

   Symposium

   chapter 8

   1 citation

   Yet Pausanias, the lover of the poet Agathon, has said in his defence of those who wallow in lasciviousness that the most valiant army, even, would be one recruited of lovers and their favourites!

9. The laws the laws 1 authority 1 citation

   Cyropaedia

   book 2

   1 citation

   At any rate, fathers develop self-control in their sons by making them weep, and teachers impress good lessons upon their pupils in the same way, and the laws, too, turn the citizens to justice by making them weep.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

Hellenica

Ancestral inheritance of Messene · Apollo's response concerning the sacred treasures · Athenian decree forbidding proposals to destroy the walls · Athenian decree on cutting off the hands of captives · Athenian decrees and allied resolutions · Athenian formal decree recalling troops from Aegina · Claim to priority in charge of the Olympic sanctuary · Decree of Cannonus · Decree on extradition of exiles from the allied cities · King Artaxerxes' peace writing · King's peace treaty · King's writing on the independence of Greek cities · Lacedaemonian law forbidding a man to hold the admiralship twice · Law concerning temple-robbers and traitors · Letter of the generals to the Senate and the Assembly · Oaths of the peace · Old saying about decimation · Olynthian-Lacedaemonian sworn agreement · Oracle about Lacedaemonian defeat at the monument of the virgins · Oracle of Apollo at Delphi · Oracle of Zeus at Olympia · Resolution of the allies for the Olynthus expedition · The Greek custom of returning the dead under a truce · The King's compact on Lacedaemonian naval pay · The King's rescript (peace terms dictated by the Persian King) · The Persian King's rescript appointing Cyrus caranus of the coastlands · The Spartan custom of sacrificing a goat to Artemis Agrotera before battle · The Spartan peace terms of 404 BC · The ancient laws of Sicyon · The constitution of the Lacedaemonians · The decree establishing the Thirty to frame the ancient laws · The killing of Archias and Hypates (Theban precedent) · Theban law authorizing polemarch arrest · Tradition of Triptolemus, Demeter, Core, Heracles, and the Dioscuri · account of Cyrus's expedition, the battle, and the Greeks' return (i.e. the work later known as the Anabasis) · allied speeches at Lacedaemon · ancestral principle against consulting the oracle about wars between Greeks · mutual oaths at Thespiae · oracle of Apollo warning against a 'lame kingship' · the law concerning citizens on the roll of the Three Thousand · the treaty between the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians

Memorabilia

Acumenus' prescription · Anaxagorean doctrine of the sun · Aspasia's teaching on truthful matchmaking · Athenian ancestral tradition concerning Cecrops, Erechtheus, Theseus, and the Persian Wars generation · Athenian law and custom on filial impiety · Delphic oracle on pleasing the gods · Delphic temple inscription · Divine ordinances concerning justice · Greek civic oath of agreement · Lacedaemonian customs of training and reverence for age · Law delaying public execution during the Dêlia · Laws concerning human conduct · Laws concerning requiting benefits · Laws concerning worship of the gods · Lycurgan Spartan law · On Heracles · Oracular response of the Pythia at Delphi ¶ · Poetic tradition about Palamedes · The Indictment against Socrates · Unnamed verses of Epicharmus · Unwritten laws · Written accusation against Socrates (unnamed) · decree of the Thirty forbidding the teaching of the art of words · oracular responses to the Athenians · popular usage regarding love and madness · the Delphic injunction to self-knowledge ('know yourself') · the counsellor's oath (Athenian law) · the fable of the sheep and the dog · the teaching of the sophists (wisdom offered for a fee) · the traditional tale of Scylla and the Sirens · the writings of the wise men of old · unnamed written and spoken criticisms of Socrates · unspecified elegiac verse · unspecified verse on sacrifice

Economics

Divine governance of prosperity · Divine ordinance of household roles · Law · Leaky jar saying · Lysander's report about Cyrus' paradise at Sardis · Persian king's code · Persian royal practice concerning husbandry and war · Persian saying of the master's eye · Tantalus myth · agricultural theory on soil nature · divine instruction through rain and seasons · laws against citizens working at illiberal arts · laws of Draco ¶ · laws of Solon ¶ · ritual practice of sacrifices and omens before war · saying that husbandry is the mother and nurse of the other arts

Symposium

Diviner's art · Examples of Themistocles, Pericles, and Solon · Gorgian expression · Homeric criticism · Judgment of Alexander · Lacedaemonian custom · Olden tales · Songs of heroic companions · Tetrameter recitation tradition · poetry of Theognis ¶ · teachings of Gorgias · teachings of Prodicus · teachings of Protagoras

Apology

Delphic oracle about Socrates · laws prescribing the death penalty · oracle about Lycurgus · other writings about Socrates' defense · reports of Hermogenes

Anabasis

Agasias' oath by the gods and goddesses · Anaxibius' letter to the Perinthians · Anaxibius' proclamation about enslaving soldiers found in Byzantium · Anaxibius' proclamation ordering the troops out of Byzantium · Apollo's oracle · Apollo's oracle at Delphi · Ariaeus' mutual pledges with the Greeks · Army resolution on public property · Artemis tablet inscription · Athenian vow to Artemis · Cleander's sacrifices for the journey · Clearchus' sacrificial omens · Ctesias' account of the King's wound and casualties · Favourable sacrificial and bird omens before the attack · Favourable sacrificial victims and omens · King's pledge of pardon to Ariaeus' followers · Oath alliance between Greek officers and Ariaeus · Oracle of Zeus the King · Orontas' letter to the King · Proxenus' letter ¶ · Safe-conduct pledges with Tissaphernes · Saying about the ass and wantonness · Saying about the north wind and voyaging to Greece · Silanus' sacrificial prediction · Tolmides' camp proclamation · Truce terms of the King and the Greeks · Watchword invoking Zeus Saviour and Heracles Leader · decree against negotiations with the enemy · omen from Zeus the Saviour · treaty against burning the King's territory · truce and oaths with the Persians

Cyropaedia

Zeus · Armenian-Chaldaean covenants · Divine ordinance of command · Median fashion · Persian and Median tutelary gods · Persian custom of bodily decorum · Persian laws · Persian principle of equality of rights · Principle of tyranny that one should have more than all · Rule that lawful is right and unlawful is wrong · Sovereign Zeus · The gods and auspices · agreements made by Astyages · divine grant of judicial power · divine prosperity of Cyrus' mission · favourable sacrificial omens

6 works in the library quote Xenophon — 23 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Xenophon 16 citations · Anabasis 3 citations · Cyropaedia 2 citations · Hellenica 1 citation · Memorabilia 1 citation

Hugo Grotius 15 citations · Cicero, Marcus Tullius 4 citations · Clement of Alexandria 2 citations · Dio Chrysostom 2 citations

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Xenophon is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 9 authority · 4 neutral · 2 endorsed 15 citations · 18 passages

   ch. 9 · ch. 10 · ch. 11 · ch. 12 2 passages anchored here · ch. 16 · ch. 23 · ch. 24 · chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 passages anchored here

   and 5 more chapters

   ch. 28 · ch. 31 2 passages anchored here · ch. 33 · ch. 36 3 passages anchored here · ch. 38

   Explicitly named as source for the claim about animals' instinctual fighting knowledge.

   Xenophon says, that every animal knows a certain method of fighting without any other instructor than nature.

2. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   book 2 · book 5

   Xenophon is named directly as the author of the praised teaching that Africanus constantly read and endorsed.

   And so Africanus always had in his hands the Socratic Xenophon, in whom he chiefly praised this — that he said the same toils are not equally heavy to a general and to a soldier, because the honour itself made the general's toil the lighter.

3. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   book 2 · book 5

   Cited alongside the Sibyl on God's invisibility.

   but of what form he is, is unseen;

4. Orations Dio Chrysostom 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

   oration 88 4 passages anchored here

   Xenophon's works are cited as singularly sufficient authority for a statesman, the strongest endorsement in the reading list.

   But Xenophon I, for my part, think alone of the ancients able to suffice a statesman:

5. On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 2

   Xenophon is named directly as the author who 'writes' this claim about Persian diet

   let there be no less pleasure in that cress on which Xenophon writes the Persians were wont to feed, than at Syracusan tables, which are gravely censured by Plato;

6. On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation

   book 1

   Xenophon's report of Socrates' sayings is explicitly cited and judged inconsistent.

   for in the sayings which he reported as spoken by Socrates he makes Socrates argue that we ought not to inquire into the shape of god, and the same Socrates call both the sun and the soul a god, and speak now of one god, now of several — which fall into nearly the same mistakes as those we lay to Plato's charge.