Xenophon
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...
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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 Socr...
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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, wh...
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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 ...
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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 rh...
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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 ...
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