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    Anabasis
    Anabasis
    Anabasis
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    Anabasis

    Written by Xenophon

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    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. "Anabasis" is a Greek word which means "journey from the coast to the center of a country." This is Xenophon's account of his march to Persia with a troop of Greek mercenaries to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from his brother 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.H. G. Dakyns lived from (1838 - 1911). (Summary from Gutenberg version of text.)

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    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Xenophon

    Xenophon of Athens was an ancient Greek historian, philosopher, and soldier. He became commander of the Ten Thousand at about age thirty. Noted military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge said of him, “The centuries since have devised nothing to surpass the genius of this warrior.”  

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    • 2/5
      Excellent book in and of itself, for sure. However, the recording is quite poor. Out of something like 5 or 6 different readers, just one had any sort of animation or drama about his reading. The others were drab.