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...

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...

Xenophon Born c. 431 B.C., Athens, Greece Died c. 352 B.C., Corinth, Greece Xenophon led a Greek army on a harrowing retreat across Asia Minor, then wrote a vivid account of the event that is still being published and read today, almost 2,400 years...

Xenophon(C. 430 Bce–C. 350 Bce) Xenophon was an Athenian citizen, soldier, gentleman-farmer, historian, and author of many varied and often graceful prose works. When young he knew Socrates, whom he consulted before joining, in 401, the famous...

Xenophon [addendum] The central concern regarding Xenophon since the mid-1960s has been his place in the so-called Socratic problem, the question of to what extent our knowledge of the historical Socrates is accurate and on the basis of what sources we...

431?-354? B.C. Greek Soldier and Historian Xenophon is best known for writing the Anabasis. It recounts the details of Cyrus the Younger's (423?-401 B.C.) Persian campaign and the role Xenophon played in leading his Greek mercenaries back to the...

Xenophon (In Greek Ξενοφῶν, ca. 431 – 355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of...

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...

Theodore Xenophon Barber, one of the most productive and influential scholars in the field of hypnosis, died on September 10, 2005. He was 78 years old and was affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Science Research Institute in Ashland, MA at the time of his death....

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Corporations, foundations and lobbying groups donating to the International Republican Institute over the past two years include:2006:_ Ace American Insurance: $15,000_ Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP: $15,000_ American Continental Group: $1,000_ American Gaming Association: $15,000_ American International Group Inc.: $15,000_ Amstel Capital: $1,000_...

In the following excerpt, Mahaffey uses Xenophon as a "case study" in his discussion of the transition from "Hellendom" to Hellenism in ancient Greece; he finds Xenophon exemplary of the period in both style and content.

In the following excerpt, originally published in 1971, Momigliano locates Xenophon at the forefront of fourth-century experiments in biography, which he claims occupied "that zone between truth and fiction."

Working from Xenophon's writings and the little biographical material available, Anderson here reconstructs Xenophon's religious and political attitudes, which he characterizes as largely conservative.