Late in life he gave a speech denouncing democracy in favor of a "meritocracy of heroism,"  as a result of which he was exiled to Sparta, where he finished his history of 504­365, the Hellenica.
Late in life he gave a speech denouncing democracy in favor of a "meritocracy of heroism,"  as a result of which he was exiled to Sparta, where he finished his history of 504­365, the Hellenica. In his youth he was a close friend of Cyrus the Younger, and helped Cyrus raise a mercenary army to retake the Persian throne from Cyrus' usurping younger brother Artaxerxes II, but failed to do so. He also wrote a Memorabilia of Socrates, which is considered more accurate than Plato's Apology because, unlike Plato, this man was actually in Athens at the time. For ten points identify this traitor, general, and historian, bestremembered for leading Cyrus' defeated army back to Greece after Cyrus' death, as recorded in his Anabasis (a­NAH­bah­sus), or The March Upcountry.
Late in life he gave a speech denouncing democracy in favor of a "meritocracy of heroism,"  as a result of which he was exiled to Sparta, where he finished his history of 504­365, the Hellenica.
Xenophon