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Xenophon's Anabasis: Books I - IV

Xenophon's Anabasis: Books I - IV

Mather, Maurice W.
Hewitt, Joseph William

Paperback

Literary CriticismAncient GreeceGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0806113472
ISBN13: 9780806113470
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Feb 15 1976
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.18 Depth: 7.76
Language: English

Born in the latter half of the fifth century B.C. near Athens, Xenophon enjoyed the best of educational and social advantages and for a time was a pupil and friend of Socrates. In 401 B.C., however, he was led by promises of adventure and fortune to join the ill-fated expedition of Cyrus against his brother, Artaxerxes the Second of Persia. After Cyrus lost his life and the other officers were murdered, Xenophon became one of the leading spirits of the army, eventually exacting revenge on the Persians, then retiring to Scillus, in Elis, to a life of sporting and literary activity. It was there that he composed the Anabasis, or Up-Country March, a painstaking but brightly written account of the expedition and his life as a Greek soldier that has endured through the ages.

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