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...

(born 431, Attica, Greece—died shortly before 350 &BC;, Attica) Greek historian. Born of a well-to-do Athenian family, Xenophon was critical of extreme democracy and for a time was exiled as a traitor. He served with the Greek mercenaries of the...

A follower of Socrates before embarking on military campaigns, including the expedition of Cyrus. The three works attributed to him most relevant to economics are Ways and Means to Increase the Revenues of Athens, perhaps the first work on PUBLIC...

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...