Xenophon's Retreat

Xenophon's Retreat
Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674023567

"With this first masterpiece of Western military history forming the backbone of his book, Robin Waterfield explores what remains unsaid and assumed in Xenophon's account - much about the gruesome nature of ancient battle and logistics, the lives of Greek and Persian soldiers, and questions of historical, political, and personal context, motivation, and conflicting agendas. The result is a rounded version of the story of Cyrus's ill-fated march and the Greeks' perilous retreat - a nuanced and dramatic perspective on a critical moment in history that may tell us as much about our present-day adventures in the Middle East, site of Cyrus's debacle and the last act of the Golden Age, as it does about the great powers of antiquity in a volatile period of transition."--BOOK JACKET.

Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception

Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception
Author: Tim Rood
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110793431

This volume constitutes the first large-scale collaborative reflection on Xenophon’s Anabasis, gathering experts on Greek historiography and Xenophon. It is structured in three sections: the first section provides a linear reading of the Anabasis through chapters on select episodes (from Book 1 through Book 7), including the opening, Cyrus’ characterisation, the meeting of Socrates and Xenophon, Xenophon’s leadership, the marches through Armenia and along the Black Sea coast and the service under Seuthes in Thrace. The second section offers an in-depth exploration of hitherto overlooked recurrent themes. Based on new approaches and scholarly trends, it focuses on topics such as the concept of friendship, the speeches of characters other than Xenophon, the suffering of the human body, the role of rumour and misrepresentation, and the depiction of emotions. The third section offers a more thorough investigation of the manifold reception of this work (in Antiquity, Byzantium, Renaissance, modern period, in cinema studies and illustrations). Finally, in acknowledgement of the Anabasis’ long history as a pedagogical text, the volume contains an envoi on the importance and benefits of teaching Xenophon and the Anabasis, more specifically.

The Anabasis of Xenophon

The Anabasis of Xenophon
Author: Xenophon Xenophon
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2017-07-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780282632182

Excerpt from The Anabasis of Xenophon: With Notes, Introduction, Itinerary, Geographical Appendix, and an Index; And Three Maps, Illustrative of the Expedition I am indebted to Mr. Long for kindly and freely giving me his Opinion on several passages on which I consulted him; the same acknowledgment is due to my friend Dr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.