The Landmark Xenophon's Anabasis

Informationen zum Autor SHANE BRENNAN is Associate Professor of History and Classics at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. From 2016-22 he taught at the American University in Dubai, UAE, and from 2011-16 at Mardin Artuklu University in the south-east of Türkiye. He has co-edited and contributed to several books and is the author of a travelogue based on Xenophon's Anabasis, In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand , and a monograph, Xenophon's Anabasis: A Socratic History .   DAVID THOMAS trained in classics at the University of Oxford, being awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1978 and returning to Xenophontic studies in 2003 on his retirement from his career in finance. He is the author of the introduction to The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika and serves as a vice president of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.   ROBERT B. STRASSLER is an unaffiliated scholar who holds an honorary Doctorate of Humanities and Letters from Bard College and is chairman of the Aston Magna Foundation for Music and the Humanities. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Klappentext The ancient classic--also known as The March of the Ten Thousand or The March Up Country--now in an elegantly designed, newly translated, definitive edition that features illuminating annotations, and copious maps and illustrations. Xenophon's Anabasis is one of the greatest true-life adventure stories ever recorded. Ten thousand Greek soldiers were stranded deep in hostile Persia and their commander was dead. They appointed Xenophon as one of their leaders, and he chronicled their harrowing journey as he led the "marching republic" north to the Black Sea. As with the other volumes in the Landmark series, this edition--edited by Robert B. Strassler and Shane Brennan--supplements the text with detailed maps, images, and annotations that place the work in historical context. With its stunning endpapers and enlightening illustrations, this beautifully produced, large-format hardcover will make a perfect gift for history buffs and all readers of the classics. Leseprobe Darius and Parysatis had two sons, the elder called Artaxerxes, the younger Cyrus. When Darius fell ill and suspected that it was the end of his life, he wanted his two sons, both of them, to be with him. [2] His elder son happened to be with him already, so he sent for Cyrus from the province over which he had made him satrap (he had also appointed him general of all those whose muster point was the plain of Kastolos). Accordingly, Cyrus went up into the interior, taking Tissaphernes with him in the belief that he was a friend, as well as three hundred Greek hoplites, whose commander was Xenias of Parrasia. [3] After Darius died and Artaxerxes succeeded to the kingship, Tissaphernes maligned Cyrus to his brother on the ground that he was plotting against the king. Artaxerxes was persuaded of this and arrested Cyrus, intending to put him to death; but their mother successfully pleaded on his behalf, and so he sent him back again to his province. [4] Departing as he did, dishonored and having been put in great danger, Cyrus set about planning how to avoid ever again being at hisbrother’s mercy, and how instead to become king in his place if he could. indeed, their mother, Parysatis, was on Cyrus’ side, for she loved him rather than Artaxerxes, even though it was Artaxerxes wh was the king. [5] When people came to Cyrus from the king, he used to send them back to the interior having treated them all so well that from then on they were his friends rather than the king’s. In addition, he used to take care that the barbarians at his own court should be fit and ready to wage war and favorably disposed toward him.   [6] He went to work putting together a force of Greeks, but as much as he possibly could, he disguised his purpose so as to surprise a completely unprepared king. So this was how he pr...

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• Autori: Shane Brennan, Robert B Strassler, Robert B. Strassler, Davi Thomas, David Thomas, Xenophon
• Editore: Pantheon Schocken Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780307906854
• ISBN: 978-0-307-90685-4
• Pagine: 672
• Dimensioni: 200 mm x 250 mm x 50 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia