num_pages: 528
description: Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and March 399 B.C.
language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
title: Anabasis
titlecomplete: Anabasis
genres: Military History, Classics, History, Ancient, Historical, War, Ancient History, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Greece
ratings_count: 8517
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press