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The Anabasis tells the story of the Ten Thousand, a Greek mercenary army that had fought for Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to usurp the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II.
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Anabasis and story
Xenophon related this story in Anabasis in a simple and direct manner.
The story of the siege is told by the Roman historian Arrian of Nicomedia, in Anabasis ( section 4. 18. 4-19. 6 ).
The story is told by Xenophon in his Anabasis.
The story of the siege as describe here is told in many histories, but it is based on the history written by the Roman historian Arrian of Nicomedia, in his Anabasis ( section 4. 18. 4-19. 6 ).
It combined a classical Greek story, Anabasis, with a fictional account of gang wars in New York City.
Anabasis and Ten
The Ten Thousand: A Study in Social Organization and Action in Xenophon's " Anabasis ".
The Ten Thousand in Thrace: An Archaeological and Historical Commenary on Xenophon's Anabasis, Books VI, iii – vi – VIII ( Amsterdam Classical Monographs ; 2 ).
When Xenophon and the Ten Thousand mercenaries were fighting their way out of Persia, the first Greek city they reached was Trebizond ( Xenophon, Anabasis, 5. 5. 10 ).
* In Anabasis, Xenophon recounts how Cyrus the Younger hired a large army of Greek mercenaries ( the " Ten Thousand ") in 401 BC to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.
Their eventual success, the march of the Ten Thousand, was recorded by Xenophon in his Anabasis.
The Greek general Xenophon records in his Anabasis that the Armenians burned their crops and food supplies as they withdrew before the advance of the Ten Thousand.
However, Kearney was quickly signed-up by publisher Solaris Books, who contracted him to write a new fantasy epic entitled The Ten Thousand and based loosely on the Anabasis of Xenophon.
Xenophon made use of Ekdromoi during the march of the Ten Thousand against the numerous barbarian warriors disrupting the Greek columns, as is multiple times attested in his work, The Anabasis.
Anabasis and Greek
Xenophon's writings, especially the Anabasis, are often read by beginning students of the Greek language.
When she started school in London, she astonished her teachers by precociously beginning an essay with two Greek words from Xenophon's Anabasis.
This book is traditionally the first authentic text assigned to students of Latin, as Xenophon's Anabasis is for students of Ancient Greek ; they are both autobiographical tales of military adventure told in the third person.
In ancient Greece it was known as " κρίθινος οἶνος " ( krithinos oinos ), " barley wine " and it is mentioned amongst others by Greek historians Xenophon in his work Anabasis and Polybius in his work The Histories, where he mentions that Phaeacians kept barleywine in silver and golden kraters.
* Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, Teubner monolingual Greek edition, edited by A. G. Roos ( 1907 )
Three great historians were Herodotus, regarded as the father of history, known for The Persian Wars ; Thucydides, who generally avoided myth and legend and applied greater standards of historical accuracy in his History of the Peloponnesian War ; and Xenophon, best known for his account of the Greek retreat from Persia, the Anabasis.
Long used as a Hittite port which appears in Hittite sources as " Sinuwa " ( J. Garstang, The Hittite Empire, p. 74 ), the city proper was re-founded as a Greek colony from the city of Miletus in the 7th century BC ( Xenophon, Anabasis 6. 1. 15 ; Diodorus Siculus 14. 31. 2 ; Strabo 12. 545 ).
Anabasis ( Ἀνάβασις – Greek for " going up ") is the most famous work, in seven books, of the Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon.
Traditionally Anabasis is one of the first unabridged texts studied by students of classical Greek because of its clear and unadorned style ; similar to Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico for Latin students.
* Xenophon's Anabasis, Seven Books, by William Harper & James Wallace, American Book Co. 1893, English with the books in Greek
** Anabasis, by the Greek writer Xenophon ( 431 – 360 B. C.
Prospective students also were required to demonstrate an ability to translate four books of Caesar's Gallic Wars, six books of Virgil's Aeneid, Jacob's or Felton's Greek Reader, and at least one of Xenophon's Anabasis.
The retreat through Siberia became an element of the heroic military legend surrounding the legions, compared to the Anabasis of Greek mercenaries across Persia.
* The Greek historian Arrian of Nicomedia wrote Anabasis Alexandri or The Campaigns of Alexander in Greek.
Anabasis ( from Greek ana
* Anabasis ( Xenophon ), by the Greek writer Xenophon ( 431 – 355 BC ), about the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II
* Anabasis Alexandri, by the Greek historian Arrian ( 86 – after 146 AD ), about Alexander the Great ( 336 – 323 BC )
Anabasis Alexandri ( Greek: ), the Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, is the most important source on Alexander the Great.
He therefore is at his best in the Anabasis, an account of his participation in a Greek mercenary army that tried to help the Persian Cyrus expel his brother from the throne.
Anabasis and mercenary
Xenophon in the Anabasis describes peltasts in action against Persian cavalry at the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BCE where they were serving as part of the mercenary force of Cyrus the Younger.
Anabasis and army
Besides military history, the Anabasis has found use as a tool for the teaching of classical philosophy ; the principles of leadership and government exhibited by the army can be seen as exemplifying Socratic philosophy.
For instance, according to Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander, at the Granicus Parmenion suggested delay before the attack, as the army had already marched all day as well as for other political and geographical issues.
Anabasis and had
An example of how the aorist tense contrasts with the imperfect in describing the past occurs in Xenophon's Anabasis, when the Persian aristocrat Orontas is executed: " and those who had been previously in the habit of bowing ( προσεκύνουν prosekúnoun, imperfect ) to him, bowed ( προσεκύνησαν prosekúnēsan, aorist ) to him even then.
Anabasis and for
Xenophon's Anabasis describes a group of Spartan soldiers in 400 – 399 BC singing to Poseidon a paean — a kind of hymn normally sung for Apollo.
In 1786, a new edition of Thomas Hutchinson's Anabasis of Xenophon was called for, and Porson was asked by the publisher to supply notes, which he did in conjunction with Walter Whiter.
** A commonly used title for Xenophon's work, The Anabasis
* Anabasis ( radio play ), for flute, clarinet, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, percussion & chorus ( 1931 )
* Siberian Anabasis, a literary name for the Czechoslovak Legions ' transit through Siberia during the Russian Civil War, in reference to the epic of Xenophon.
When the Russian Imperial Navy brought the first steamships into the land-locked Aral Sea, the local Governor-General Vasily Perovsky ordered the commander of Fort Aralsk to collect " as large as possible supply " of saxaul wood ( Anabasis saxaul, in the source ) for use by the new steamships on their maiden navigation of 1851.
The literary archetype for this film can be found in the Anabasis of Xenophon.
This is the main meaning given for katabasis by the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) which it describes as " A going down ; a military retreat, in allusion to that of the ten thousand Greeks under Xenophon, related by him in his Anabasis.
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