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A History of My Times by Xenophon
Category: History | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a fascinating chronicle of the conflicts that ultimately led to the decline of Greec ...Show more
Anabasis by Xenophon
Category: Fiction | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Ba ...Show more
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
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Hiero. Agesilaus. Constitution of the Lacedaemonians. Ways and Means. Cavalry Commander. Art of Horsemanship. on Hunting. Constitution of the Athenians by Xenophon; E. C. Marchant (Translator); G. W. Bowersock (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Ba ...Show more
Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises by Xenophon
Category: Classic Fiction
One of Socrates' Athenian disciples in his youth, Xenophon (c. 498-354 bc) fought as a mercenary commander in Cyrus the Younger's campaign to seize the Persian throne, and later wrote a wide range of works on history, politics and philosophy. These six treatises offer his informed insights into the natu ...Show more
Memoirs of Many in One by Alex Xenophon; Demirjian Gray; Patrick White (Editor)
Category: Classic
Memories of Socrates - Memorabilia and Apology by Xenophon; Martin Hammond; Carol Atack
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Who would you say knows himself?' In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was one of the circle of mainly upper-class young At ...Show more
The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon
Category: History | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!' The Expedition of Cyrus tells the story of the march of the Ten Thousand. The exploits of this famous army of Greek mercenaries in mode ...Show more
The Memorabilia by Xenophon
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Philosopher, soldier, and historian, Xenophon was a former student of Socrates who composed The Memorabilia many years after his teacher's trial and execution in 399 B.C. This collection of Socratic dialogues presents not the philosopher's actual defense to the Athenian court but rather a more general a ...Show more
The Persian Expedition : Anabasis by Xenophon
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army – the Ten Thousand – to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. When the Greeks were then betrayed b ...Show more
The Sea, The Sea by Xenophon
Category: Fiction
Only one man can lead the Greek army home . . . Trying to help a prince overthrow the king of Persia, the Greek army have been betrayed. Now the surviving soldiers are trapped in a hostile country as unforgiving enemies attack from all sides. Enter Xenophon, a tough and brilliant leader. He must gui ...Show more
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