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Thalatta! Thalatta!(The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand)("The Sea! The Sea!": The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination)(Book Review)
In spring 401 B.C., amid the detritus of the recently ended twenty-seven-year-long war between Athens and Sparta, about 13,000 Greek mercenary soldiers marched eastward in the pay of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger. The Greeks weren't quite sure where they were ultimately headed. Most of them at first didn't seem to care--even if it seemed unlikely that they were simply hired, as told, to put down some quarreling among insurrectionist Persian satraps.
Instead, the so-called Ten Thousand put their trust in their Spartan drill-masters, chiefly the brutish Clearchus, and kept pressing ahead. They wanted money, and were inured to military adventure after long ...
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- Magazine article from: Military Review Hernandez, Prisco R. January 1, 2009 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Historian Cartledge, Paul March 22, 2006 700+ words
The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand...first widely broadcast in Xenophon's Anabasis (The Journey...to within sight of the Black Sea. They were located above...to revisit the scene of Xenophon's stirring tale in a...
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- Magazine article from: Calliope Kuhl, Jackson November 1, 2006 700+ words
...Greek generals--among them, Xenophon's friend Proxenus--agreed...weak to do it in open combat, Xenophon rallied the troops. They then...and eastern Turkey, to the Black Sea. The soldiers passed through...mountains, and snow, which Xenophon reported was six feet deep...
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- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review HOWLAND, JACOB December 1, 2000 700+ words
Xenophon's Anabasis, a military adventure interwoven...addressing the first of these problems, Xenophon makes explicit a lesson about the limits...leader of a well-ordered community. Xenophon's self-presentation in the Anabasis...
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- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Kwasniewski, Peter A. March 1, 1997 700+ words
Xenophon. Edited by Robert C. Bartlett. Ithaca...This volume contains translations of Xenophon's Apology of Socrates, Oeconomicus...or outright contempt, the writings of Xenophon are once again attracting serious scholarly...
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- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Nadon, Christopher June 1, 1996 700+ words
Recent scholarship has reestablished Xenophon as a theorist of considerable importance and...work have been published: The Cyropaedia: Xenophon's Aims and Methods, by Bodil Due; Xenophon's Imperial Fiction, by James Tatum; Xenophon...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Woolley, Bryan January 15, 2003 700+ words
...called ``Anabasis'' by an ancient Athenian named Xenophon. Not only did Xenophon write in a direct, simple style comprehensible...assemblies. As their new top general they chose Xenophon, one of the few Athenians among them. Unlike...
Source: HighBeam Research, Thalatta! Thalatta!(The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten...