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- In the Anabasis, Xenophon, who began the campaign as a cavalryman and later became one of the Greek mercenaries’ generals, describes the genesis of Cyrus’ revolt, the march deep into the Persian empire, the subsequent victorious battle of Cunaxa at which Cyrus died, and the difficult journey of the ten thousand Greek hoplite mercenaries as they fought their way north to the Black Sea and freedom.
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Xenophon's Anabasis, translated by Carleton Lewis Brownson. Anabasis (/ ə ˈ n æ b ə s ɪ s /; Greek: Ἀνάβασις; an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon.
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Nov 3, 2023 · Ian Chege. | Certified Educator. Last Updated November 3, 2023. Introduction. Xenophon's Anabasis is a seven-volume work written in Ancient Greek that is the author’s personal account of the...
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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 17, 2021 · His 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, hired a 10,000-strong force of Greek mercenaries as a leading edge to counter and cut through the numerically superior barbarian force his brother had under his ...
- Shane Brennan
Anabasis, by Xenophon. Anabasis is a classic story of an army’s retreat from disaster, told by the man who was thrust into the role of saving it. Anabasis means “march inland from the coast,” which is a paradoxical title for a book that is mostly about a march to the coast from inland.
Darius and Parysatis had two sons born to them, of whom the elder was Artaxerxes and the younger Cyrus. 1 Now when Darius lay sick and suspected that the end of his life was near, he wished to have both his sons with him. 1 In regard to the persons mentioned and the events sketched in sections1-4, see Introduction, pp. 231 sqq.
Oxford University Press. 2012. Xenophon’s Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical narratives to have survived from ancient Greece. It tells the story of Cyrus, a charismatic Persian prince, who in 401 BC enlisted thousands of Greek mercenaries in an attempt to seize the vast Persian empire for himself.
