Xenophon's Anabasis, Or The Expedition of Cyrus

Xenophon's Anabasis, Or The Expedition of Cyrus PDF Author: Michael A. Flower
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195188683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most famous survival stories ever written and the most important autobiographical work to have survived from ancient Greece. This book places the Anabasis in its historical and literary context and opens up for the reader different ways of interpreting its major themes.

Xenophon's Anabasis, Or The Expedition of Cyrus

Xenophon's Anabasis, Or The Expedition of Cyrus PDF Author: Michael A. Flower
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195188683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Book Description
Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most famous survival stories ever written and the most important autobiographical work to have survived from ancient Greece. This book places the Anabasis in its historical and literary context and opens up for the reader different ways of interpreting its major themes.

Xenophon's Retreat

Xenophon's Retreat PDF Author: Robin Waterfield
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674023567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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"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.

The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon

The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon PDF Author: Michael A. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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Book Description
Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.

The Sea, the Sea

The Sea, the Sea PDF Author: Xenophon
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780141026312
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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 guide the retreating Greeks across the treacherous mountains and rivers that stand in their way. But can he lead them to freedom - and to the great sea that will take them home?

Xenophon's Cyrus the Great

Xenophon's Cyrus the Great PDF Author: Xenophon
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142990531X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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This classic portrait of the ancient Persian king is “still the best book on leadership” (Peter F. Drucker). Cyrus, a great Persian leader, was so widely and memorably respected that a hundred years later, Xenophon of Athens wrote this admiring book about the greatest leader of his era. Among his many achievements, this great leader of wisdom and virtue founded and extended the Persian Empire; conquered Babylon; freed 40,000 Jews from captivity; wrote mankind’s first human rights charter; and ruled over those he had conquered with respect and benevolence. According to historian Will Durant, Cyrus the Great’s military enemies knew that he was lenient, and they did not fight him with that desperate courage which men show when their only choice is “to kill or die.” As a result the Iranians regarded him as “The Father,” the Babylonians as “The Liberator,” the Greeks as the “Law-Giver,” and the Jews as the “Anointed of the Lord.” By freshening the leader’s voice, style, and diction, Larry Hedrick has created a more contemporary Cyrus, and also contributes an introduction describing him and his times. A new generation of readers, including business executives and managers, military officers, and government officials, can now learn about and benefit from Cyrus the Great’s extraordinary achievements, which exceeded all other leaders’ throughout antiquity.

The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika

The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika PDF Author: Xenophon
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375422552
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Book Description
Here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. --from publisher description.

The March Up Country

The March Up Country PDF Author: Xenophon
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472060955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
The famous chronicle of the wealthy Athenian leader Xenophon, brought to life for the modern reader

Xenophon's Socrates

Xenophon's Socrates PDF Author: Leo Strauss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781587319655
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Xenophon's Mirror of Princes

Xenophon's Mirror of Princes PDF Author: Vivienne Gray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198706908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Plato's Republic I

Plato's Republic I PDF Author: Geoffrey Steadman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984306541
Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Book Description
Facing each of the 44 pages of John Burnet's Greek edition of Plato's Republic I (originally published by Oxford University Press in 1903) is a single page of corresponding vocabulary and intermediate level grammatical commentary. Once readers have memorized the core vocabulary list, they will be able to read the classical Greek and consult all relevant vocabulary and commentary without turning the page.