Xenophon

Xenophon (c. 430-354 BC) was a Greek soldier and historian. A student of Socrates, Xenophon wrote several important texts including Hellenica, an account of the Peloponnesian War, and several Socratic dialogues clearly influenced by his former teacher. Xenophon was ultimately exiled from Athens because of his close associations with Sparta. For more information, see the following: 
*http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/650658/Xenophon
*http://www.iep.utm.edu/xenophon/
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon
=="Examination of the Hero in a Time of War"==
Xenophon appears in Stevens' poem "Examination of the Hero in a Time of War": 
 The hero is not a person. The marbles 
 
 Of Xenophon, his epitaphs, should 
 
 Exhibit Xenophon, what he was...
 
 The marbles of what he was stand 
 
 Like a white abstraction only, a feeling 
 
 In a feeling mass, a blank emotion, 
 
 An anti-pathos, until we call it 
 
 Xenophon, its implement and actor...
 
 
 If the hero is not a person, the emblem 
 
 Of him, even if Xenophon, seems 
 
 To stand taller than a person stands 
 
 (selections from lines 98-114) [1]
==References ==
1. Wallace Stevens, Collected Poetry and Prose, Library of America, 1997. Page 247.