Like the work itself, its conventional English title – due to Gilbert Murray – is distinctly odd. It has been handed down wrongly attached to Xenophon's completely extant corpus, but, though certainly Attic (Athenian) in dialect, it is not Xenophontic in style. Possibly already in antiquity, it was given the same title as other works on Athens' constitution (politeia), but this can be very misleading, because it is very different in both approach and content from the Aristotelian Athenaiôn Politeia of the 330s. So different is it, in fact, that it has been seen as a work of epideixis, a purely rhetorical display piece, glorying in both the discovery and the incipient codification of rhetoric by mid-fifth-century bce Sicilian rhetoric masters, and in the clever-clever proto-philosophical sophistical reasoning that takes its name precisely from the movement associated with the rhetoricians (and other skills-mongers) labelled collectively – and pejoratively – Sophists, with a capital ‘S’, who also began to make their presence felt at Athens and elsewhere in the Greek world from the mid-fifth century on (see chapter 6).