The Expedition of Cyrus

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General Books LLC, 2009 - 178 pages
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1742. Excerpt: ... VII. Book thirty-four thousand six hundred and fifty Stadia, and the Time, employed in both, of a Year, and three Months. Xenophan to have been the Amount both of the Expedition, and Retreat. THE INDEX. II. signifies the second Volume, n. the Notes. A. Abrocomas, Enemy to Cyrus. -- 36 DEGREES.00 Greeks desert from him to Cyrus, 39. Goes to the King upon the Approach of Cyrus, 41. Bums all the Boats upon the Euphrates, 49. Arrives not 'till the Day after the Battle. -- 78 Ach A 1 Ans, v. Orcadians. AcHERtrsiAs, a Peninsula. IL 100 Adoration, among the Persians. -- yon. neas, how kill'd. - -- 297 ni Ans, serve under Menon, 15. Their Dance. II. 8j schines, pursues the Enemy, 262. Is the first that gains the Top of the Mountain against the Colcbians. 309 Ac As 1 As, the Helean Priest. - II. 245 Acasias, of Stymphalus, detects Apollonides, 180. Con- tends with Callimachus who shall go upon a dangerous Expedition, 244, and 295. Mounts the Rampart with- out Arms, II. 14. His Answer to Xenopbon, II. 97. Is sent to demand the Money of the Heracleans, 102. A ssem- bles the Army, 117. Rescues a Man from Dexippus, 134. Accused by Dexippus, 135. His Speech to the Army, 137. Retorts the Accusation upon Dexippus before Clcander, 138. Is wounded v. Callimachus. Ac 1 As, an Arcadian, one of the Generals, goes to TiJTa.- phernes, is apprehended, 160. Put to Death, 159. Cha- racter. 168 Alcibiades, in great Favour with 1ijsapherr.es. 15. n. Amphicra'i Es, stain. 251 Anaxibius, 254 Celebrates the Praises of the Greeks, 89. Sends for the Generals to Byzantium, 158. Promises the Army Pay, ibid. Refuses to pay them, 159. Orders them out of the Town, ibid. Orders them to the Thracian Villages for Provisions, 160. Flies to the Citadel, 163. ...

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Xenophon's life and personality is better known to us, perhaps, than that of any other Greek who lived before Alexander the Great. Much of his considerable output of historical writing and essays is frankly or implicitly autobiographical. He reveals himself as one of those many Athenians and other Greeks who turned to autocratic political models, including admiration of Persia, after the excesses of the Athenian democracy led to disaster in the Peloponnesian War. He also reveals himself as much more than a literary man and a critic of his times. A gentleman adventurer and something of a professional soldier, he followed in turn the philosopher Socrates, the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger, and the Spartan king Agesilaus, all of whom he wrote about with an air of close personal knowledge. His works include the autobiographical Anabasis, an account of his service with a mercenary Greek army that marched from Mesopotamia to the Black Sea after the defeat and death of the younger Cyrus. It provides the most detailed single perspective on the military practices and military mentality of Xenophon's age. His Hellenica, by contrast, is an impersonal continuation to the end of the Peloponnesian War of the work of Thucydides and a patchy memoir that concentrates on Sparta's fortunes until the definitive end of its power in 362 b.c. Xenophon's other major works are the Cyropaedia and the rambling Socratic dialogues known as the Memorabilia. The Cyropaedia is a fictional idealization of the career of Cyrus the Great, the only great conqueror known to the Greeks before Alexander. Often regarded merely as a novel, it is a species of a priori historical reconstruction. A retrojection of the military science and political values of the day into a largely unknown Persia of the past, it is intended to explain Cyrus's success on rational principles. The Memorabilia and the Socratic Apology that comes down with them contain nothing of philosophical value but are thought by some scholars to offer a possible corrective to Plato's altogether too Platonic Socrates. Xenophon had a conventional and second-rate mind, but he is a valuable resource because of his mediocrity. He enables us to make contact with an ordinary intellect from a world that often seems dominated by geniuses.

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