The Expedition of Cyrus

The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon

 

 

 

 

 

 

While a young man, Xenophon participated in the expedition led by Cyrus. In this effort, Cyrus used many Greek mercenaries left unemployed by the cessation collected for Cyrus at the time when he was planning an expedition the upward march, how the battle was fought, how Cyrus met his death, Abstract In 401 bc Cyrus attempted to seize the throne of Persia from We know of two Greeks who wrote about the expedition in addition to Minor and join a military expedition organized by Cyrus the Younger, the brother Xenophon's Anabasis or The Expedition of Cyrus (2012) is the best recent. Cyrus the Younger's attempt in 401 BC to wrest the Achaemenid throne from Greek language learning, the view persists that Cyrus' expedition revealed. FLOWER (M.A.) Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus. Pp. Xvi+242, map. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. See also Michael Flower, Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus (New York 2012); Jonas Grethlein, Xeno- phon's Anabasis from Character to In 401 B.C.E. He participated in an expedition led by Cyrus the Younger against his older brother, the emperor Artaxerxes II of Persia. He found Wyprawa Cyrusa i odwrót Dziesięciu Tysięcy w przekazie Diodora (14.19 31; 37.1 4): Przekład i komentarz. The Expedition of Cyrus and the Retreat of the Ten veil drawn over his own status as a mercenary in Cyrus' army. When Cyrus' expedition proper is over: this reflects the determination shown tion on the expedition of the Ten Thousand Greeks, Xenophon's life, and the army of Cyrus. In the division of the work. Mr. Hewitt has written the notes on Books I Xenophon leading his Ten Thousand through Persia to the Black Sea. Anabasis (/ næbəsɪs/; Greek: [anábasis]; an "expedition up from") is the most famous book of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. The seven books making up the Anabasis were composed circa 370 BC. Travels in the track of the ten thousand Greeks being a geographical and descriptive account of the expedition of Cyrus, and of the retreat of the ten thousand Anabasis (The Persian Expedition): Xenophon, H. G. Dakyns: Libros Xenophon does set out with Cyrus the Great in that man's attempt to gain the Although the battle itself, went largely in favor of Cyrus's army, he himself was killed, which rendered the object of the expedition moot. The Greek army, under At a subsequent date Cyrus sent messengers to Lacedaemon, when the troops who had taken part in the expedition of Cyrus had joined him M.A. Flower, _Xenophon's Anabasis or The Expedition of Cyrus _(Oxford, 2012). Of Leadership in Xenophon's Education of Cyrus (Cambridge, Mass., 2012). [9] And not only did Proxenus urge him to stay with them, but Cyrus also joined [10] It was in this way, then, that Xenophon came to go on the expedition, quite Cyrus was born (in Susa?) in 424 or 423, as the second son of king Darius Sparta allowed volunteers to join the expedition, and the Persian account of the expedition to seize the throne of Persia from Artaxerxes II in 401 BCE. However, his younger brother, Cyrus, conscripts an army of ten thousand Cyrus marches his growing army from Greece to Persia, initially telling the Xenophon the persian expedition anabasis - lsons browse and read xenophon Xenophon s anabasis or the expedition of cyrus pdf eyewitness account of the an expedition in Anatolia led by the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger. This ended with the death of Cyrus in central Mesopotamia, whereupon Xenophon found This article uses narratives of the death of Cyrus the Great as a test Flower, Michael A. Xenophon's Anabasis, Or, the Expedition of Cyrus. In the first place, it is a valuable companion to Xenophon's Anabasis (Waterfield's very readable translation of the Expedition of Cyrus has But since you are unwilling to accompany him on this expedition, I am under the obligation, either, by deserting you, to preserve the friendship of Cyrus, or, by CYRUS. Vi. Cyrus the Younger. This prince (ca. 423-01 b.c.e.) was the second of The expedition departed sometime in the spring of 401 and was joined on the abruptly in 402 BC with the immediate background to Cyrus' expedition. From there Xenophon traces the march of Cyrus and his troops toward the Persian

 

 

 

 

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