In 401 B.C. Cyrus the Younger (424?-401 B.C.) marched into the heart of the Persian Empire to take the throne from his brother Artaxerxes II (reigned 404-359/58 B.C.). The core of his army was a contingent of Greek mercenaries, later known as the...

The Ten Thousand were a group of mercenary units, mainly Greek, drawn up by Cyrus the Younger to attempt to wrest the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II. Their march to the Battle of Cunaxa and back to Greece (401 BC-399 BC)...

Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age BY ROBIN WATERFIELD FABER, pounds 17.99, 248 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Xenophon was a literate bruiser, a writer's mercenary and a mercenary writer....

The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, edited by Robin Lane Fox. Yale, December 2004. $45 Robin Fox has performed an important service in focusing the considerations of a dozen leading scholars (including himself) on a wide range of interesting aspects of...

Congress is currently considering the president's proposed $2.9 trillion federal budget. While federal spending consumes an awesome 20% of nation's GDP, the budget process at least allows taxpayers to know on what Washington is spending.But there is much more to government's reach in the economy...

Barack Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died. The death toll was 12."In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died _...