Work
Memorabilia
Ἀπομνημονεύματα
By Xenophon.
- Kind of writing
- Biography
- Dialect
- Attic
- Written
- 5th–4th c. BC
- Length
- 42,236 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 80% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
How Athens trusted chance, and built a machine to make sure nobody cheated itChosen by lot: the allotment machineModern democracies choose their officials by election.The democracy that put a philosopher to deathThe trial of SocratesIn the spring of 399 BC, a jury of about five hundred Athenian citizens found the philosopher Socrates, aged about seventy, guilty of not believing in the city's gods, of bringing in new divine beings, and of corrupting the young.