The Xenophon list is one of the "slow reading lists" operated by
The Free Lance Academy. The list owner is Lance Fletcher,
President of the Free Lance Academy Foundation.
For a brief discussion of what I mean by "slow reading," please
see my essay at http://www.freelance-academy.org/slowread.htm.

The general purpose of this Xenophon slowread list is to study
Xenophon's works as carefully as we can with the fewest possible
presumptions about the man. The literature tends frequently to
categorize Xenophon as an historian, sometimes as a philosopher,
and sometimes even as the first novelist. Though all three may be
relevant, this list aims to keep open the question of 'what
Xenophon is' and rather focus first on what he wrote.

As mentioned above, this is one of a group of lists hosted by The
Free Lance Academy, whose main purpose is to create opportunities
for serious, committed intellectual inquiry outside the
university, primarily by means of online media such as internet
mailing lists. For the names of other lists in this group,
search on the relevant keywords listed below.

In the belief that the most effective way to learn something is
to teach it, another of the principal aims of The Free Lance
Academy is to provide opportunities for teaching, especially for
people who might not otherwise have such an opportunity. If you
would like to become a discussion leader of this list or any
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