«Rosie Harman offers a sparkling analysis of the ways in which the representation of visual experience in Xenophon’s historical works – Hellenica, Anabasis and Cyropaedia – invites readerly engagement with ideological problems facing the Greek elite of the early fourth century BCE. Addressing the politics of viewing in Xenophon against the backdrop of modern theory as well as ancient Greek cultural contexts of viewing and spectatorship, this sophisticated study shows how Xenophon’s texts prompt readers to occupy multiple, often conflicting political positions, and thereby experience for themselves the problems faced by historical actors.»

Emily Baragwanath, Associate Professor of Classics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

«This book is a fine addition to the growing number of books on Xenophon. Its focus on the political implications of ‘viewing’, as construed in Hellenica, Anabasis, and Cyropaedia, rehabilitates Xenophon as a complex thinker and a cunning literary artist.»

Luuk Huitink, Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands