For example in the Hellenica Xenophon writes ' When Dercylidas learned this ( that a Persian army was nearby ), he ordered his officers to form their men in line, eight ranks deep ( the hoplite phalanx ), as quickly as possible, and to station the peltasts on either wing along with the cavalry.

Xenophon writes that the Odrysians held horse races and drank large amounts of wine after the burial of their dead warriors.

Xenophon writes that these passages are to help the reader from being cheated.

The campaigns of Xenophon illustrated how very vulnerable it had become to attack by an army organised along Greek lines, but the Greek city-states had weakened each other irreparably through in-fighting.

In the days of the Greek historians Ctesias and Herodotus, 400 BC, Nineveh had become a thing of the past ; and when Xenophon the historian passed the place in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand the very memory of its name had been lost.

Xenophon had a fond love of Athens but didn't believe in its political morals, which leads some to believe that he was an oligarch.

The work is found in manuscripts among the short works of Xenophon, as though he had written it also.

Think of the barren image we should have of Socrates, had the works of Plato and Xenophon not come down to us and were we wholly dependent upon Aristophanes ' description of this Athenian philosopher.

Xenophon ), and had to put down brigands and rebels.

Xenophon, who ends his history with the battle of Mantinea, says of the battle's results: When these things had taken place, the opposite of what all men believed would happen was brought to pass.

Before the final attack began, Xenophon, the main relator of the events at Cunaxa, who was probably at the time some kind of mid-level officer, approached Cyrus to ensure that all the proper orders and dispositions had been made.

Xenophon adopts a similarly hostile attitude in the early parts of his work, but apparently had a change of heart during the chronological break in composition that divides the second book of the Hellenica ; his portrayal of Theramenes during the reign of the Thirty Tyrants is altogether more favorable than that of his earlier years.

The field is therefore open for him to do for the Macedonian king what Pindar had done for the Deinomenid tyrants and Xenophon for the march of the Ten Thousand ".

Winckelmann had read Homer, Herodotus, Sophocles, Xenophon, and Plato, but he found at Nöthnitz the works of such famous Enlightenment writers as Voltaire and Montesquieu.

In Four of the Last Sermons Preached in St James after his Highnesse Death ( Oxford, 1613 ; see 1613 in literature ) From " Meditations of Consolation in our Lamentations ": "[...] his body was so faire and strong that a soule might have been pleased to live an age in it [...] vertue and valor, beauty and chastity, armes and arts, met and kist in him, and his goodnesse lent so much mintage to other Princes, that if Xenophon were now to describe a Prince, Prince HENRY had been his Patterne.

Xenophon had a similar view, but he did not mention the battle.

Courier published in 1807 his translation from Xenophon, Du commandement de la cavalerie et de l ' equitation, and had a share in editing the Collections des romans grecs.

The Greek general Xenophon ( 430 − 354 BC ), an eyewitness at the battle of Cunaxa, tells of them: " These had thin scythes extending at an angle from the axles and also under the driver's seat, turned toward the ground ".

According to Xenophon, Cyrus had 196, 000 men in total, which was composed of 31, 000 to ~ 70, 000 Persians.

His own nation, the Iranians, have regarded him as " The Father ", the very title that had been used during the time of Cyrus himself, by the many nations that he conquered, as according to Xenophon:

In Book I of the Memorabilia, Xenophon relates Critias ' passion for the young Euthydemos and how Socrates mocked him for it: Socrates had observed that Critias loved Euthydemos.

Xenophon, who wrote his own Apology of Socrates, indicates that a number of writers had published accounts of Socrates ' defense.

One contemporary criticism of Plato's Apology is perhaps implied by the opening paragraphs of Xenophon's Apology, assuming that the former antedated the latter ; Xenophon remarks that previous writers had failed to make clear the reason for Socrates ' boastful talk ( megalēgoria ) in the face of the death penalty.

Prior to the pre-selection of Handshin, No Pokies MP Nick Xenophon had been considering running in the seat as an independent, before deciding to run for the Senate instead.

Some scholars have suggested that what accounts for the difference is that Xenophon wished to avoid the explicit attribution of " wisdom ", a term which, to the average Athenian, would suggest that Socrates indeed was properly characterized as an atheistic natural philosopher as Aristophanes had done.

( According to Xenophon, the Thebans signed as " the Thebans ", and asked the next day to change their signature to " the Boeotians ", but the Spartan king, Agesilaus, would not allow it.

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.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

Leo Strauss argued that the strong influence of Xenophon, a student of Socrates more known as an historian, rhetorician and soldier, was a major source of Socratic ideas for Machiavelli, sometimes not in line with Aristotle.

" However Xenophon does not mention Socrates as believing in reincarnation and Plato may have systematised Socrates ' thought with concepts he took directly from Pythagoreanism or Orphism.

Primary sources for accounts of the trial are given by two of Socrates ' friends, Plato and Xenophon ; well known later interpretations include those of the journalist I. F. Stone and the classics scholar Robin Waterfield.

According to Xenophon, Socrates ( c. 469-399 B. C.

Xenophon (, Xenophōn ; c. 430 – 354 BC ), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates.

When Xenophon returned to Athens and told Socrates of the oracle's advice, Socrates chastised him for asking so disingenuous a question.

* Xenophon, Greek historian, soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates ( d. 354 BC )

The attacks of some of their followers against Socrates prompted a vigorous condemnation from his followers, including Plato and Xenophon, as there was a popular view of Socrates as a sophist.

While this is at variance with the depictions by Plato and Xenophon, two of Socrates ' students, it is plausible that Aristophanes ' parody of Socrates is more accurate than their panegyrics.

* Xenophon, Greek historian, soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates ( b. c. 427 BC )

* Xenophon, Greek historian, soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates ( b. c. 431 BC )

Plato's Apology, and likewise that of Xenophon, lists Anytus as one of the primary prosecutors in the trial of Socrates.

Xenophon has Socrates forecast that the boy will grow up vicious if he studies a purely technical subject such as tanning.

Xenophon however, like Plato and Aristotle, was a follower of Socrates, and his works show approval of a " teleological argument ", while Machiavelli rejected such arguments.

The fact that many conversations involving Socrates recounted by Plato and Xenophon end without having reached a firm conclusion, which is to say, aporetically, has stimulated debate over the meaning of the Socratic method.