Xenophon's Anabasis

By Xenophon

Book Id: WPLBN0002952330
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Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Xenophon's Anabasis
Author:	Xenophon
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, History, Memoirs
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Xenophon's Anabasis
Historic Publication Date:	1897
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Xenophon, B. (1897). Xenophon's Anabasis. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

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Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. Anabasis is a Greek work which meane journey from the coast to the center of a country. This is Xenophon's account of his march to Persia with a troop of Greek mercenaries to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from his brother Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and March 399 B.C. H. G. Dakyns lived from (1838 - 1911). (Summary from Gutenberg version of text.)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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History, Memoirs, Travel, Adventure