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Anabasis (Xenophon) Anabasis. (Xenophon) Xenophon's Anabasis, translated by Carleton Lewis Brownson. [1] Anabasis (/ əˈnæbəsɪs /; Greek: Ἀνάβασις [anábasis]; an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. [2] It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand ...
Xenophon was born c. 430 BC[8] in the deme (local district) of Erchia in Athens; his father was called Gryllus (Γρύλλος) and belonged to an Athenian aristocratic family. [9][10] The Peloponnesian War was being waged throughout Xenophon's childhood and youth. [11] A contemporary of Plato, Xenophon associated with Socrates, as was common ...
The Persian expedition of Catherine the Great in 1796, like the Persian expedition of Peter the Great (1722–1723), was one of the Russo-Persian Wars of the 18th century which did not entail any lasting consequences for either belligerent. The last decades of the 18th century were marked by continual strife between rival claimants to the ...
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.
Persian expedition. Persian expedition or Persian campaign may refer to: Persian campaign (Alexander the Great) (334–333 BC) Julian's Persian expedition (363) Persian expedition of Stepan Razin (1669) Persian campaign of Peter the Great (1722–1723) Persian expedition of 1796 of Catherine the Great. Persian campaign (World War I) (1914–1918)
Julian's Persian expedition began in March 363 AD and was the final military campaign of the Roman emperor Julian. The Romans fought against the Sasanian Empire, ruled at the time by Shapur II. Aiming to capture the Sasanians' winter capital of Ctesiphon, Julian assembled a large army. In order to mislead the opponent and to carry out a pincer ...
The Anabasis (which survives complete in seven books) is a history of the campaigns of Alexander the Great, specifically his conquest of the Persian Empire between 336 and 323 BC. [2] Both the unusual title "Anabasis" (literally "a journey up-country from the sea") and the work's seven-book structure reflect Arrian's emulation (in structure ...
Tarikh-i Jahangushay. Frontispiece of Tarikh-i Jahangushay, depicting Ata-Malik Juvayni sitting and writing in front of Arghun Aqa, dated 1290. Located in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Suppl. Pers. 205). [1][2] This is one of the first Persian miniatures. The sky design with volutes is known as "Chinese cloud". [3]