$42.98
- Hardcover
672 pages
- Release Date
30 December 1998
Summary
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 fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this ‘March Up-Country’ (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered service under the Spartans against th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674991019 |
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| ISBN-10: | 067499101X |
| Author: | Xenophon, Carleton L. Brownson, John Dillery |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 30 December 1998 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 162mm x 108mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Loeb Classical Library |
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Xenophon
Carleton Lewis Brownson (1866–1948) was Professor of Classical Languages at the City College of New York. John Dillery is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia.
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