Oikonomikos

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Lampugnino Biragos Latin translation of Xenophons Oikonomikos in the Florence manuscript, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 51, fol. 3r (Dedication copy for Pope Nicholas V , 15th century)

The Oikonomikos ( Greek  Οἰκονομικός , Latinized Oeconomicus , "housekeeping") is a dialogue by the Greek writer Xenophon . It was established between 390 and 355 BC. Chr. Writes and deals thematically mainly with home economics and agricultural science . The two interlocutors in the dialogue are Socrates and a certain Critobulus.

Literature and Editions

  • Klaus Meyer: Xenophons "Oikonomikos". Translation and commentary . Westerburg 1975.
  • Gert Audring : Xenophon. Economic writings. (Introduction, translation, comm.), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992.
  • Sarah B. Pomeroy: Xenophon, Oeconomicus: a Social and Historical Commentary. With a New English Translation . Oxford 1994.
  • Robert C. Bartlett et al. (Eds.): Xenophon, The Shorter Socratic Writings: "Apology of Socrates to the Jury", "Oeconomicus", and "Symposium," trans. and with interpretive essays by, with Thomas Pangle and Wayne Ambler, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, The Agora Editions, 1996 ISBN 0-8014-7298-9 .
  • Sabine Föllinger : Socrates as an economist? An analysis of the didactic design of Xenophon's ‛Oikonomikos'. In: Würzburg Yearbooks for Classical Studies. 30 (2006), pp. 5-23.
  • Gert Audring, Kai Brodersen : Oikonomika. Sources on economic theory of ancient Greece. (= Texts on research 92). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-21725-0 .
  • Johannes Unholtz: Being good at Oikos. Sub-political virtues in the economic writings of classical antiquity. Mainz 2010.

Web links

Wikisource: Οικονομικός  - Sources and full texts (Greek)