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Xenophon. Xenophon, in his Hellenica, did not cover the retreat of Cyrus but instead referred the reader to the Anabasis by "Themistogenes of Syracuse" —the tenth-century Suda also describes Anabasis as being the work of Themistogenes, "preserved among the works of Xenophon", in the entry Θεμιστογένεης. (Θεμιστογένης ...
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Jan 18, 2022 · His 14 books cover subjects ranging from history to household management, but are nearly all influenced by the philosopher Socrates, Xenophon’s teacher. Xenophon’s most famous work is his Anabasis, the story of Cyrus the Younger ’s rebellion in 401 BCE against his brother, the Great King of Persia. The younger sibling, fired with ambition ...
Route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (red line) in the Achaemenid Empire.The satrapy of Cyrus the Younger is delineated in green.. The Anabasis is a narrative of how "Xenophon rouses the despairing Greeks into action and leads them on their long march home; and the narrative of his successes has won him noteworthy if uneven admiration for over two millennia."
Sep 27, 2022 · Xenophon of Athens (l. 430 to c. 354 BCE) was a contemporary of Plato and a fellow student of Socrates. He is best known for his Anabasis ( The March Up Country) detailing the retreat of the Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries after the defeat of Cyrus the Younger (d. 401 BCE) as well as for his works on Socrates. Xenophon was highly regarded in his ...
- Joshua J. Mark
- Xenophon of Athens was a student of Socrates who later became famous as the commander of the Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries he led back to Greece a...
- The Anabasis tells the story of the failed attempt of Cyrus the Younger to take the Persian throne from his brother Artaxerxes II and of the Ten Th...
- Xenophon is important not only as the author of Anabasis but for his works on Socrates, which, other than Plato's Dialogues, are the only extant wo...
- Xenophon died of natural causes c. 354 BCE, probably at Corinth.
Anabasis, prose narrative, now in seven books, by Xenophon, of the story of the Greek mercenary soldiers who fought for Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to seize the Persian throne from his brother, Artaxerxes II. It contains a famous account of the mercenaries’ long trek (“the march of the 10,000”) from near Babylon to the Euxine (Black ...
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Dec 17, 2021 · Xenophon of Athens (c. 430-355 BCE) is one of just a few Greek writers whose full output has come down to us from antiquity. His fourteen books cover subjects ranging from history to household management, but are nearly all influenced by the philosopher Socrates, Xenophon’s teacher. His most famous work is his Anabasis, the story of Cyrus the ...
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Xenophon, accordingly, after offering the sacrifices to the gods that Apollo's oracle prescribed, set sail, overtook Proxenus and Cyrus at Sardis as they were on the point of beginning the upward march, and was introduced to Cyrus. [9] And not only did Proxenus urge him to stay with them, but Cyrus also joined in this request, adding that as ...
