Preview   Noreen Humble’s monograph offers a polemical, deeply considered and largely convincing reinterpretation of Xenophon’s Lacedaimoniôn Politeia. For her, the work represents a Socratic enquiry into how Sparta’s harsh way of life paved the way for the abuses of Spartan commanders abroad, figures criticized both in the work’s infamous fourteenth chapter and throughout Xenophon’s … Continue reading Xenophon of Athens: a Socratic on Sparta