In the canon
A History of My Times
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 362 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 400
It opens mid-stride, "After this, not many days later," because Thucydides had died with his sentence unfinished and Xenophon picked the war up where it fell. He carries it nearly fifty years, and he was there: an Athenian cavalryman, later exiled, writing on a Spartan estate about the city that threw him out.
Uncertainty and confusion, indeed, had gained ground, being tenfold greater throughout the length and breadth of Hellas after the battle than before.
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