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American Anabasis

Some material on pp. 108-9, 119-20, 124-6 is reworked from a 2004 chapter 'Panhellenism and Self-presentation' (in R. Lane Fox, ed., The Long March) that was submitted to RAE2008, but the arguments are developed and given a new context through the interaction with Xenophon's American reception.

The research underlying this output (a monograph c. 110,000 words long, approximately 4% of which consists of a revision of material published before 2008) involved the collection and analysis of a very considerable body of material that had not previously been collected or analysed, relating to the reception of Xenophon’s Anabasis in American culture from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The sources analysed include newspapers, speeches, military memoirs, fiction, poems, and paintings. The research was made possible by a year-long sabbatical spent in the USA.