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Xenophon.. Xenophon, in his Hellenica, did not cover the retreat of Cyrus but instead referred the reader to the Anabasis by "Themistogenes of Syracuse" [4] —the tenth-century Suda also describes Anabasis as being the work of Themistogenes, "preserved among the works of Xenophon", in the entry Θεμιστογένεης.
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]
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Xenophon noted that those who consumed small amounts of the honey became drunk, while those who consumed a lot went mad. It is believed that the Colchians deliberately left this honey out, and that mad honey was the first biological weapon used in history to incapacitate enemies.
Meno (/ˈmiːnoʊ/; Greek: Mένων, Menōn; c. 423 – c. 400 BC), son of Alexidemus, was an ancient Thessalian political figure, probably from Pharsalus. [1]He is famous both for the eponymous dialogue written by Plato and for his role as one of the generals leading different contingents of Greek mercenaries in Xenophon's Anabasis.
Fragments of Xenophon's Hellenica, Papyrus PSI 1197, Laurentian Library, Florence. Xenophon's Hellenica is a Classical Greek historical narrative divided into seven books that describe Greco-Persian history in the years 411–362 BC. The first two books narrate the final years of the Peloponnesian War from the moment at which Thucydides ...
The main source for Sophaenetus' career is the Anabasis of Xenophon. [2] Writing in the fifth century AD, Stephanus of Byzantium cites on four occasions a certain Anabasis Kyrou written by Sophaenetus. This is generally presumed to be the same person as mentioned by Xenophon. Stephanus cites him for the names of several places in Asia Minor.
The moving moment described by Xenophon has stirred the imagination of readers in later centuries, as chronicled in a study by Tim Rood. [7] Heinrich Heine uses the cry in his cycle of poems Die Nordsee published in Buch der Lieder in 1827. [8] The first poem of the second cycle, Meergruß ('Sea Greeting'), begins: Thalatta! Thalatta!