page_title: Anabasis (Xenophon)
section_title: Book VI
hierarchical_section_title: Anabasis (Xenophon) / Chapter summaries / Book VI
caption_attribution_description: English: Xenophon Anabasis
context_page_description: Anabasis is the most famous book of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. The seven books making up the Anabasis were composed circa 370 BC. Anabasis is rendered in translation as The March of the Ten Thousand and as The March Up Country. The narration of the journey is Xenophon's best known work, and "one of the great adventures in human history".
context_section_description: The Hellenes make a deal with the Paphlagonians to cease fighting. Xenophon feels he should not be the leader on the last part of the trip.
  The army breaks up into three factions and Xenophon leads his troops back to Hella.
  Xenophon hears of the situation the Arcadians and Achaeans are in and rushes with his troops to their aid.
  The Hellenes do not find the sacrificial victims in their favor and cannot proceed nor find provisions until the signs change in their favor.
  Xenophon advises the troops to attack their enemies now instead of waiting for the enemy to pursue them when they retreat to camp.
  Agasias is to be put on trial before Cleander for ordering Dexippus to be stoned after Agasias rescues one of his own from false accusation.
caption: Xenophon's Anabasis, translated by Carleton Lewis Brownson.[7]
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