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 Anabasis eBook
84,937 words, approx. 283 pages
 The complete online text of Anabasis by Xenophon. 
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 Biography of Xenophon
1216 words, approx. 4.1 pages
The Greek historian, essayist, and military expert Xenophon (ca. 430-ca. 355 BC) was the most popular of the Greek historians. He facilitated the change from the Thucydidean tradition of history to rhetoric. The son of Gryllus of the Athenian deme of Erc... summary from source:
 Biography of Xenophon
4223 words, approx. 14.1 pages
 The reputation of Xenophon the Athenian is higher in the present era than it was at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but whatever the fluctuation in the literary assessments of this versatile writer, his books have traveled through the centuries,...
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 Anabasis Information
749 words, approx. 3 pages
Anabasis Aνάβασις is the most famous work of the Greek writer Xenophon.[1] The journey it narrates is his best known accomplishment. Xenophon accompanied the Ten Thousand, a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger, who intended...
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 American Political Science Review Xenophon's Philosophic Odyssey: On the Anabasis and Plato's Republic.
12/01/2000: 15,148 words, approx. 51 pages Xenophon's Anabasis, a military adventure interwoven with a story of philosophical self-discovery, is a companion piece to Plato's Republic. The Anabasis takes up in deed the two great political problems treated in speech in the Republic, namely, how a just community can come... summary from source:
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 Critical Essay by W. E. Higgins
8,617 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following excerpt, Higgins delineates Xenophon's notion of the individual and his ideal relationship between individual and society; using the Agesilaos and Anabasis as examples, Higgins determines that "the claims of family and city regulate individual desire" and leadership, "if genuine, is not founded upon license but limit."
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Critical Essay by Alfred Pretor
415 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following excerpt, Pretor prefaces his translation of Xenophon's Anabasis with comments on the author's limitations, including a tendency to be dry and "slovenly."
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