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Xenophon's Anabasis, translated by Carleton Lewis Brownson. [1]Anabasis (/ ə ˈ n æ b ə s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνάβασις; an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. [2]
The March Up Country: A Translation of Xenophon's Anabasis, translated by W. H. D. Rouse, 1958; References Further reading. Great Dialogues of Plato ...
Route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (red line) in the Achaemenid Empire.The satrapy of Cyrus the Younger is delineated in green.. Written years after the events it recounts, Xenophon's book Anabasis (Greek: ἀνάβασις, literally "going up") [14] is his record of the expedition of Cyrus and the Greek mercenaries' journey to home. [15]
March Upcountry is the first novel in the science fiction series of the Empire of Man by David Weber and John Ringo.It tells the story of Prince Roger MacClintock and his bodyguards of the Empress' Own Regiment who get marooned on the alien planet of Marduk due to an act of sabotage on their ship and must fight their way towards the local space port (held by enemies of the Terran Empire) in ...
Route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (red line) in the Achaemenid Empire.The satrapy of Cyrus the Younger is delineated in green.. The Ten Thousand (Ancient Greek: οἱ Μύριοι, hoi Myrioi) were a force of mercenary units, mainly Greeks, employed by Cyrus the Younger to attempt to wrest the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II.
Xenophon describes the scene as follows: From there they went through four days’ march and twenty parasangs to a large, prosperous and populous city which was called Gymnias. From this country the ruler sent a guide for the Greeks, so that he could lead them through the country which was an enemy of theirs.
There they were made prisoner, taken up to the king and there decapitated. The Greeks elected new officers and set out to march northwards to the Black Sea through Corduene and Armenia, to reach the Greek colonies on the shore. Their eventual success, the march of the Ten Thousand, was recorded by Xenophon in his Anabasis.
Was the target of Cyrus the Younger’s “anabasis” – his ill-fated march “up country” to usurp the throne from his brother; [26] supported Athens in the Corinthian War (supplying Conan with a fleet of ships), [27] then switched sides to support Sparta; was eventually able to dictate terms to both sides, imposing the “King’s Peace ...