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The Hellenica is his chronicle of the history of the Hellenes from 411 to 359 B.C., starting as a continuation of Thucydides, and becoming his own brand of work from Book III onwards. PREPARER'S NOTE This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a four-volume set.
Summary Fragments of Xenophon's Hellenica, Papyrus PSI 1197, Laurentian Library, Florence. Xenophon's Hellenica is a Classical Greek historical narrative divided into seven books that describe Greco-Persian history in the years 411–362 BC. The first two books narrate the final years of the Peloponnesian War from the moment at which Thucydides ...
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May 15, 2023 · The Hellenica is a major narrative history of ancient Greece, written by Xenophon. It picks up its account where Thucydides left off in 411 BC, and continues down to the battle of Mantinea in 362 BC.
Xenophon, Hellenica, Book 2. book: chapter: 1. The troops that were at Chios under Eteonicus 12 subsisted, so long as the summer lasted, upon the produce of the season and by working for hire up and down the island; when winter came on, however, and they were without food and poorly clad and unshod, they got together and agreed to make an ...
chapter: section: After this, 1 not many days later, Thymochares 2 came from Athens with a few ships; and thereupon the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians fought another naval battle, and the Lacedaemonians were victorious, under the leadership of Agesandridas. 1 i.e. after the last events described by Thucydides.
Apr 28, 2021 · The Hellenica is Xenophon’s continuation of Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War, literally resuming from where the previous author’s history was abruptly left unfinished and narrating the events of the final seven years of the conflict and the war’s aftermath.
