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5 days ago · In 1978-1979 the American film director Walter Hill shot The Warriors, an adaptation of Sol Yurick’s eponymous novel, which was in turn inspired by Xenophon’s Anabasis. Classicists have fruitfully examined Hill’s The Warriors in relation to Yurick’s novel and the Anabasis.
4 days ago · This excerpt concerns the education of children and marriage arrangements in Sparta and demonstrates that women in Sparta were often accorded more independence than women in other Greek city-states. This source is a part of the Women in Classical Athens and Sparta teaching module. Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians, c. 387 B.C.E.
5 days ago · An ἀνάβασις is a ‘journey up-country,’ but what Arrian is invoking here is Xenophon’s account of his own campaign with the 10,000, the original Anabasis; Arrian seems to have fashioned himself as a ‘second Xenophon’ in a number of ways. This is going to be quite a general overview.
4 days ago · This is an excellent posting. One should also mention Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, or the Education of Cyrus, in which Cyrus was novelized as an ideal king. Xenophon was a second student of Socrates, alongside Plato. It is apparent that Cyrus was highly idealized in Socratic circles.
5 days ago · Cyrus was often depicted positively in Western tradition by sources such as the Old Testament of the Bible and the Greek writers Herodotus and Xenophon. The Cyropaedia of Xenophon was particularly influential during the Renaissance when Cyrus was romanticised as an exemplary model of a virtuous and successful ruler.
- About 539–538 BC
- Achaemenid Empire
- Baked clay
4 days ago · Anabasis of Alexander: The Battle of Gaugamela (Book III, 7-16) By: Arrian (Lucius Flavius Arrianus) Translated By: E. J. Chinnock. 7. Alexander arrived at Thapsacus in the month Hecatombaion, [1] in the archonship of Aristophanes at Athens; and he found that two bridges of boats had been constructed over the stream.
2 days ago · In Anabasis, Xenophon recounts how Cyrus the Younger hired a large army of Greek mercenaries (the "Ten Thousand") in 401 BC to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II. Though Cyrus' army was victorious at the Battle of Cunaxa, Cyrus himself was killed in battle and the expedition rendered moot.
