Estate Management and Symposium

Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was appreciated for its literary qualities including its charm, wit, vigour, and sweetness (for which he was hailed as ''Attic Muse'': Diogenes Laertius, 2.6.57). The Oeconomicus describes Socrates conversi...