Towards a New Text of Xenophon’s Lakedaimonion Politeia

Authors

  • Graham Shipley

Abstract

This paper, after paying tribute to Mogens H. Hansen, assembles fourteen emendations to Xenophon’s ‘Lakedaimonion politeia’ (‘Constitution of the Lakedaimonians’ or Spartans) which are under consideration for a new edition of volume 5 (‘Opuscula’) of the Oxford Classical Texts edition of Xenophon’s works. The passages are 1.8 (wife-sharing), 2.3 (footwear), 2.6 (stealing), 3.5 (silence among boys), 4.1 (a point of syntax), 5.4 (consumption of alcohol), 8.3 (the power of office-holders to cow the citizens), 10.4 (the pursuit of virtue), 11.4 (the choice between ‘citizen’ and ‘hoplite’ morai, and the number of morai), 11.10 and 13.6 (manoeuvres in the presence of the enemy), 12.5 (maintaining fitness during a campaign), 13.9 (young men going joyfully into battle), and 15.6 (the kings’ water-supply). Discussions are based on collation of the manuscripts and have benefited from the important recent work by D. Muratore.

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Published

2026-08-21

How to Cite

Shipley, G. (2026). Towards a New Text of Xenophon’s Lakedaimonion Politeia. Classica Et Mediaevalia, 749–784. Retrieved from https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/170898

Issue

2026: Supplement 4: Tales from A Thousand Cities. Studies in Memory of Mogens Herman Hansen

Section

Varia Historia

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