Includes translations of the earliest preserved novels in ancient Greek that offer us a glimpse of the beginning of prose fiction in the western world.[...]
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particu[...]
Historian, soldier, huntsman, economist, farmer, philosopher and author, Xenophon is one of the most versatile yet most accessible of the classical Greeks. Born at the start of the Peloponnesian War in Athens, he joined the outer circle of Socrates' young admirers and wrote affectionately of his men[...]
One of classical Greece's most worldly and lucid writers, Xenophon across his many works gave a restless criticism of power: democratic,oligarchic and autocratic. From military campaigns (in which he took part),through the great powers of his day (Sparta, Persia, Athens) to modes of controlwithin t[...]
Xenophon (430-354 f.Kr.), atensk militär och författare (och en av Sokrates lärjungar), kom från en relativt välbärgad och aristokratisk familj.
Han deltog 401 f.Kr. i det fälttåg som den persiske prinsen Kyros ledde mot sin bror, storkonungen Artaxerxes II. Sedan den grekiska leg[...]