AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Xenophon.

☛This is Xenophon of Athens, the soldier, historian, and student of Socrates. There was also a Xenophon of Ephesus, who is known for his novel Ephesian Story.


Loeb Editions.

The Loeb Classical Library editions have been rearranged over the decades, so that different works appear split across volumes and mixed up with other different works. We have done what we could to sort them out.

Anabasis. With an English translation by Carleton L. Brownson.

Anabasis books I–III (with Hellenica books VI & VII).

Anabasis books IV–VII; Symposium and Apology with an English translation by O. J. Todd.

Cyropaedia. With an English translation by Walter Miller.

Vol. I.

Vol. II.

Hellenica. With an English translation by Carleton L. Brownson.

Books I–V.
Another copy.

Books VI & VII (with Anabasis books I–III).
Another copy.

Memorabilia and Oeconomicus. With an English translation by E. C. Marchant.
Another copy.

Memorabilia, Oeconomicus. Translated by E. C. Marchant. Symposium, Apology. Translated by O. J. Todd.

Scripta Minora. With an English translation by E. C. Marchant.


English Translations

The Whole Works of Xenophon, translated by Ashley Cooper, Spelman, Smith, Fielding and others. Complete in one volume. New York: Bangs, Brother & Co., 1855.
Another copy.
The same, Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1845.

The Minor Works of Xenophon: viz., Memoirs of Socrates; The Banquet; Hiero, or the Condition of Royalty; and Economics, or the Science of Good Husbandry. Translated from the Greek, by several hands. London: [four lines of booksellers], 1813.

Xenophon’s Minor Works. Literally translated from the Greek with notes and illustrations by the Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., M.R.S.L. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914.

Anabasis.

The Anabasis of Xenophon; with an interlinear translation, for the use of schools and private learners, on the Hamiltonian System, as improved by Thomas Clark. Philadelphia: Charles DeSilver & Sons, 1859.

The Anabasis, or Expedition of Cyrus, and the Memorabilia of Scorates. Literally translated from the Greek of Xenophon, by the Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., M.R.S.L. With a geographical commentary, by W. F. Ainsworth, Esq. London: George Bell and Sons, 1875.
1907 printing.
The same. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878.

The Anabasis, or Expedition of Cyrus. Literally translated from the Greek of Xenophon, by the Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., M.R.S.L. Boston: Willard Small, 1893.

Cyropædia.

Cyropaedia: or, the Institution of Cyrus. By Xenophon. Translated from the Greek by the late Honourable Maurice Ashley, Esq. The third edition corrected, 1770.

Volume I.
(Another copy.)

Volume II.

Cyropædia; or, the Institution of Cyrus, by Xenophon. Translated from the Greek by the Honourable Maurice Ahley. London: [several booksellers], 1803.
Another copy.

Cyropædia; or, the Institution of Cyrus. By Xenophon. Translated from the Greek, by the Honorable Maurice Ashley [Cooper]. Philadelphia: B. B. Hopkins & Co., 1810.

The Cyropædia, or Institution of Cyrus, and the Hellenics, or Grecian History. Literally translated from the Greek of Xenophon. By the Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., and the Rev. Henry Dale, M.A. London: George Bell & Sons, 1880.

The Education of Cyrus. Translated from the Greek of Xenophon by Henry Graham Dakyns. —Everyman’s Library, [1914].
A different printing.

Hellenica.

History of the Affairs of Greece, in seven books: being a continuation of the Peloponnesian War; from the time where Thucydides ends, to the Battel at Mantinea. To which is prefixed an abstract of Thucydides, and a brief account of the land and naval forces of the ancient Greeks. Translated from the Greek, by John Newman. London: Printed by R. H. for William Freeman, 1685.

The Cyropædia, or Institution of Cyrus, and the Hellenics, or Grecian History. Literally translated from the Greek of Xenophon. By the Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., and the Rev. Henry Dale, M.A. London: George Bell & Sons, 1880.
1855 printing (Henry G. Bohn).
Another copy.

Memorabilia.

Xenophon’s Memoirs of Socrates. With the Defence of Socrates before his judges. Translated from the original Greek. By Sarah Fielding. Bath: C. Pope, 1762.
At Google Books.

The Memorable Things of Socrates, written by Xenophon. In five books. Translated into English. To which are added the Life of Socrates, from the French of Monsieur Charpentier, a member of the French Academy. And the Life of Xenophon, collected from several authors; with some account of his writings. Dublin: George Faulkner, 1747. —Dedication signed E. Bysshe.

The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates. By Xenophon. Translated by Edward Bysshe. London: Cassell & Company, 1889.
Another copy.

Memoirs of Socrates for English Readers. A new translation from Xenophon’s “Memorabilia;” with illustrative notes, by Edward Levien, M.A. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1879.
Another copy (missing title page).

Oeconomicus.

Certain Ancient Tracts Concerning the management of Landed Property Reprinted. London: C. Bathurst, 1767. —Includes Xenophon’s Treatise of Householde. “The translation of the ΛΟΓΟΣ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΟΣ of Xenophon is the best version of that piece in the English language; and expresses with some success the simple and unaffected stile, and the humorous and sagacious dialogue of that elegant writer.”

The Economist of Xenophon. Translated into English by Alexander D. O. Wedderburn, and W. Gershom Collingwood. With a preface by John Ruskin.

Minor Works.

The Art of Horsemanship. By Xenophon. Translated, with chapters on the Greek riding-horse, by Morris H. Morgan, Ph.D. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1893.