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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] It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand , an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia ...
Arrian's Anabasis has traditionally been regarded as the most reliable extant narrative source for Alexander's campaigns. Since the 1970s, however, a more critical view of Arrian has become widespread, due largely to the work of A. B. Bosworth, who has drawn scholars' attention to Arrian's tendency to hagiography and apologia, not to mention several passages where Arrian can be shown (by ...
Anabasis (from Greek ana = "upward", bainein = "to step or march") is an expedition from a coastline into the interior of a country. Anabase and Anabasis may also refer to: History
Prior to waging war against Artaxerxes, Cyrus proposed that the enemy was the Pisidians, and so the Greeks were unaware that they were to battle against the larger army of King Artaxerxes II (Anabasis 1.1.8–11). At Tarsus, the soldiers became aware of Cyrus's plans to depose the king and, as a result, refused to continue (Anabasis 1.3.1).
The cry is also mentioned by the narrator of Frederick Amadeus Malleson's (1877) translation of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, [9] when the explorers in the story discover an underground ocean. It is absent from the original French work. [10]
A katabasis is in general followed by an anabasis (a going up) to distinguish itself from death; very rarely does a living hero decide to stay in the Underworld forever. Famous examples of katabases in Greek mythology include Orpheus , who enters the underworld in order to bring Eurydice back to the world of the living, and Odysseus , who seeks ...
In 1742 he translated Xenophon's Anabasis, under the title ‘The Expedition of Cyrus into Persia, with Notes Critical and Historical,’ London. It went through several editions, and was republished as late as 1849. Spelman's translation was styled by Edward Gibbon ‘one of the most accurate and elegant that any language has produced’. He ...
If the latter are correct, Diodorus probably encountered the Anabasis Kyrou indirectly, through Ephorus and the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has even been argued that Sophaenetus, as the senior officer, wrote his account before 385 BC, well before Xenophon, and that the latter wrote in response, even using Sophaenetus as a source. [ 5 ]