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Headword: Xenias
Adler number: xi,28
Translated headword: Xenias
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proper name.
Greek Original:
Xenias: onoma kurion.
Notes:
And a Peloponnesian-sounding one. Known individuals of this name include:
(i) An Arcadian mercenary commander in the army of the younger Cyrus (Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.3 & 10, 1.4.7-8).
(ii) A faction-leader in Elis in the early C4 BC: fabulously rich ("the man of whom they say that he measured out the money he got from his father by the bushel": Xenophon, Hellenica 3.2.27-29, at 27); proxenos of Sparta and personal guest-friend of King Agis II; and, in the account of Xenophon, instigator of a bungled right-wing coup in his city. See Perseus Encyclopedia entry at web address 1, inc. links to his several mentions in Pausanias.
Reference:
P.A. Cartledge, Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta (London 1987) p.251.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; historiography; history; military affairs; politics
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica ✝ on 16 February 2000@13:45:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 6 July 2001@03:36:43.
Catharine Roth (added note and link) on 6 July 2001@18:18:51.
David Whitehead (augmented note; added bibliography) on 7 July 2001@05:06:32.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 5 December 2005@06:08:09.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; raised status) on 28 August 2007@06:04:54.
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