{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0032.tlg003.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0032.tlg003.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg003.local001","title":"Οἰκονομικός","titleGreek":"Οἰκονομικός","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Xenophon","authorityName":"XENOPHON Hist.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0032-xenophon/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0032-xenophon/","editors":["Edgar Carew Marchant"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Xenophontis opera omnia","edition":"Editio Altera","publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1921","volume":"2","series":"Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca Oxoniensis","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operaomniarecogn02xenouoft/page/229/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Xenophon. 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