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Anabasis Kyrou

Xenophon

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1 About this book

The Anabasis by Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) is an eyewitness account of Greek mercenaries' challenging "March Up-Country" from Babylon back to the coast of Asia Minor under Xenophon's guidance in 401 BCE, after their leader Cyrus the Younger fell in a failed campaign against his brother.

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  • History
  • Greece, history
  • Historical geography
  • Ancient History
  • Biography
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Military art and science
  • Trials, litigation

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3 About Xenophon

431–354

Xenophon of Athens (; Ancient Greek: Ξενοφῶν; c. 430 – 355/354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, economist, and historian. At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been part of Cyrus the Younger's attempt to seize control of the Achaemenid Empire.

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