Anabasis (eBook)

The Persian Expedition of Cyrus

Xenophon (Autor)

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2019
284 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
405-766455624-0 (EAN)

Infos

Anabasis is Xenophon's most famous book. The seven-tome book of the Anabasis describes The March of the Ten Thousand and their return to Greece. Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II. The narration of the journey is Xenophon's best known work, and "one of the great adventures in human history".

Autor

Xenophon of Athens (c. 431 BC – 354 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, historian, soldier, mercenary, and student of Socrates. Xenophon's works span several genres and are written in plain-language Attic Greek, for which reason they serve as translation exercises for contemporary students of the Ancient Greek language. As a historian, Xenophon is known for recording the history of his time, the late-5th and early-4th centuries BC, in such works as the Hellenica, which covered the final seven years and the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), thus representing a thematic continuation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2019
• Übersetzer: Henry Graham Dakyns
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: adventure narrative • Alexander the Great • ancient military tactics • Classic Literature • epic quest • Greek History • Herodotus • historical non-fiction • Ken Follett • livy • Memoirs of ancient Greece • mercenary army • Mythos • Plato • Praetorian • sapiens • Soldier's Journey • Thucydides • Trojan War • Xenophon's writing style