Xenophon's Retreat

Informationen zum Autor Robin Waterfield's previous book for Faber was Xenophon's Retreat . In 2005 he published a new translation of Xenophon's Anabasis as Xenophon: The Expedition of Cyrus . He is also the author of Athens: A History and has translated works by Euripides, Plutarch, Herodotus, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as other works by Xenophon. Klappentext It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back home - a journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and Armenia, and down to the coast of the Black Sea, fighting all the way. Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the end of the Golden Age is Robin Waterfield's epic story of a band of Greek mercenaries stranded in Persia, forced to fight their way home across deadly terrain. Zusammenfassung It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back home - a journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and Armenia, and down to the coast of the Black Sea, fighting all the way.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Waterfield
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.09.2007
• EAN: 9780571223848
• ISBN: 978-0-571-22384-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient World, Ancient Greek & Roman legends, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Ancient Greece; War