Anabasi by Xenophon

Anabasi

Xenophon with Franco Ferrari (Translator), Italo Calvino (Contributor)

507 pages first pub -390 (view editions) user-added

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Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it...

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