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ΞΕΝΟΦΩΝΤΟΣ [XENOPHONTIS]: ΑΠΑΝΤΑ (ΚΥΡΟΥ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ, ΚΥΡΟΥ ΑΝΑΒΑΣΙΣ, ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ, ΑΠΟΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΥΜΑΤΑ, ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΟΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ, ΑΠΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΣΩΚΡΑΤΟΥΣ, ΠΕΡΙ ΙΠΠΙΚΗΣ, ΚΥΝΗΓΕΤΙΚΟΣ, ΣΥΜΠΟΣΙΟΝ , ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ)
OPERA. BASILEAE 1555
Elegant mid-16th-century edition of all extant works of Xenophon.
Folio (33 × 21 cm). Complete: title with woodcut device, [8], 678, [1] pp. Contemporary fine leather covers, rebacked in the mid-18th century, with contemporary ownership inscription on title; covers worn.
Text in the original Greek with parallel Latin translation. Internally with some light browning and scattered spotting; text generally clean with a few marginal notes. Overall, a very good copy for a 500-year-old book.
Xenophon’s works preserve much of our knowledge of Athens and Greece in the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC. His Anabasis in particular is the earliest comprehensive travel account to survive, and a prime source for the history and geography of Asia Minor.
References: Adams X 9; Schweiger I, 335.