Anabasis

Anabasis

by Xenophon
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/04/2023

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Anabasis is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. It narrates the expedition of a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BC. It is likely that the Anabasis, which was initially published under the pseudonym Themistogenes of Syracuse, was composed some 20 years after the events it describes. Textual evidence suggests that it was subsequently revised. Xenophon's Anabasis is a true story of remarkable adventures. Volume IV of the Loeb Xenophon edition collects four works on Socrates. In Memorabilia Xenophon adds to Plato's picture of Socrates from a different viewpoint.

ISBN:
9789354625367
9789354625367
Category:
European history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-04-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
True Sign Publishing House
Xenophon

A philosopher, soldier, and historian of ancient Greece, Xenophon (c.430–354 B.C.) was a disciple of Socrates; he and Plato are the only two students whose records survive of the philosopher's conversation, life, and teachings.

In the Anabasis and Hellenica, Xenophon reported on events of his own era; the former recounts his participation in a Persian civil war, and the latter provides an important account of the end and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.

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