Xenophanes biography of christopher

Christopher Stedman Parmenter is an ancient historian specializing in the intertwined histories of race, culture, and long-distance trade in Archaic and Classical Greece. Before coming to Ohio State, I held postdocs at the University of Pennsylvania (2021-22) and New York University (2020-21), where I also received my doctorate in Classics. My book, entitled Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE (Oxford, 2024), asks how and why Greeks came to see their Mediterranean neighbors—like the “grey-eyed Thracians” and “dark-skinned Ethiopians” listed by the poet Xenophanes around 550 BCE—as racialized ‘Others’ in the middle of the first millennium.

My articles cover a wide range of topics, including slavery in the world of the Archaic Black Sea, the archaeology of ancient Cyprus, Egyptianizing religious practices in the Archaic Greek world, the politics of Blackness in American classical studies during the

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Xenophon

Greek philosopher, historian, and soldier (c.430–355/354 BC)

For other uses, see Xenophon (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Xenophanes.

Xenophon of Athens (; Ancient Greek: Ξενοφῶν;^[a]c. 430 – probably 355 or 354 BC)^[2][4] was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian. At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been part of Cyrus the Younger's attempt to seize control of the Achaemenid Empire. As the military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge wrote, "the centuries since have devised ingenting to surpass the genius of this warrior".^[5] Xenophon established precedents for many logistical operations and was among the first to describe strategic flanking maneuvers and feints in combat.^{[citation needed]}

For at least two millennia, it has been debated whether or not Xenophon was first and foremost a general, hi

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Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments

November 13, 2024

For all my goodreads followers out of the loop, I've been trying to, post-graduation, put some time in to read books that feel like "homework"- nonfiction, maybe difficult, definitely hailing from academia, and dealing with some kind of arcane knowledge inom have to chew on a little. I think I just miss the stimulation I had in college that came from reading things I wouldn't immediately want to read and ansträngande to meet them halfway, appreciate them on their terms. Or maybe it's just masochistic or I'm a greenhouse flower that has trouble existing outside of school. psychoanalyze however you wanna.

This desire is currently manifesting in me working through reading about presocratic philosophers in order. (I'm going through the recommended reading of the podcast "the history of philosophy without any gaps) I'm interested in that foundational historic moment of thinking critically and re-viewing the world around you. It's interesting to