Anabasis (Annotated)

Xenophon's Anabasis is one of antiquity's most vivid narratives of military endurance and political improvisation. Recounting the expedition of the Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger and their perilous retreat from the heart of Persia after Cunaxa, the work combines eyewitness history, memoir, ethnography, and practical leadership manual. Its lucid Attic prose, admired for c...