Hellenica (Annotated)

Xenophon's Hellenica continues Greek history where Thucydides' account breaks off, narrating events from 411 to 362 BCE: the end of the Peloponnesian War, Spartan hegemony, Persian intervention, Theban ascendancy, and the aftermath of Mantinea. Written in lucid, economical Attic prose, it is less analytical than Thucydides yet richly attentive to character, leadership, piety, and political instabi...