In the canon
Anabasis
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 390 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient greek
- Pages
- Pages 380
Ten thousand Greek mercenaries hire themselves to a Persian prince in the autumn of 401 BCE, march fifteen hundred miles into the interior of the empire, and find themselves stranded by his death at a battle they have won. Xenophon, an Athenian gentleman of Socrates' circle who joined the campaign as a private adventurer, wrote this memoir in the third person around 370 BCE so that another commander seems to be praised.
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