Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age
In The Expedition of Cyrus, the Western world's first eyewitness account of a military campaign, Xenophon told how, in 401 B.C., a band of unruly Greek mercenaries traveled east to fight for the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to wrest the throne of the mighty Persian empire from his brother. With this first masterpiece of Western military history forming the backbone of his book, Robin Waterfield explores what remains unsaid and assumed in Xenophon's account much about the gruesome nature of ancient battle and logistics, the lives of Greek and Persian soldiers, and questions of historical, political, and personal context, mo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-674-03073-2
- EAN: 9780674030732
- Produktnummer: 3732438
- Verlag: Belknap Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Masse: H22.4 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.8 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
Über den Autor
Robin Waterfield has recently published a new translation of Xenophon's Anabasis. He is also the author of Athens: A History and has translated works by Euripides, Plutarch, Herodotus, Aristotle,Plato, and other works by Xenophon.
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