1. See also p. 21. On Herodotus, see S. West, ‘Herodotus’ Epigraphical Interests’, Classical Quarterly, 35 (1985), pp. 278–305; on the same device in Greek fiction-writers, see J. Morgan, ‘Lucian’s True Histories and the Wonders Beyond Thule of Antonius Diogenes’, fortuitously in the same volume of Classical Quarterly, pp. 475–90.

2. A striking confirmation of this is that the general picture we acquire of Socrates in Xenophon’s Socratic writings is much the same as the ones we acquire from other writings about his other heroes, such as Cyrus and Agesilaus. There are so many similarities between views attributed to Socrates (and Ischomachus) in the four works in this volume and views attributed to Cyrus in Cyropaedia that I have not bothered to mention them in footnotes.