The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika Strassler Robert B.Paperback
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika Strassler Robert B.Paperback From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika,…
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The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika Strassler Robert B.Paperback
From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus, here is a new edition of Xenophon's Hellenika, the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War.Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E., a particularly dramatic period during which the alliances among Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Persia were in constant flux. Later Xenophon joined the Spartan army and hence was exiled from Athens. Together with the volumes of Herodotus and Thucydides, it completes an ancient narrative of the military and political history of classical Greece.Xenophon was an Athenian who participated in the expedition of Cyrus the Younger against Cyrus' brother, the Perisan King Artaxerces II.
In addition to the Hellenika, a number of his essays have survived, including one on