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In 1988, when Donald Morrison published his bibliography on Xenophon’s Socratic writings from 1600 to 1984, it would have been difficult to imagine that a supplement would be called for any time soon.

But even as Morrison wrote, his own polemic against Gregory Vlastos’s high-handed treatment of Xenophon was leading some to give Xenophon another look.¹ Since then there has been a burst of interest in Xenophon’s Socrates, particularly in continental Europe, where study of Socratics other than Plato has been rather more intense than in the Platocentric Anglo-American world.² The current volume adds not only a series of important French language essays on Xenophon’s Socrates, but a bibliography of the rather stunning 1384 items on Xenophon’s Socrates published since Morrison’s cutoff date.

The bibliography is the work of Louis-André Dorion, editor, together with Michele Bandini, of the sp