Publisher Description
Xenophon, after being exiled from Athens, spent the last years of his life hunting, writing, and recalling in his books the great days of the Persian expedition. This record of one of the most famous marches in history contains an account of the day-to-day life of ordinary men and soldiers. It demonstrates how Greek theories of government and morality worked out in practice—for with his admiration for the great, Xenophon had a rare ability to understand and describe the outlook of lesser men. His own fortunes, too, are intensely moving. Cool, calculating, brilliant, and intensely pious, he is one of the most fascinating characters of history, and his account of his own doings is so far from being self-conscious that he seems to be one of the very few Greeks whose ways and manners have been accurately documented.
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“In 401 BC a Greek mercenary force was recruited by Cyrus to overthow his brother Artaxerxes, the Great King of Persia. The Greeks were successful in battle but Cyrus was killed and the Persians turned on the Greeks. After luring their officers into a trap and killing them, the Greeks chose new leaders, including Xenophon, to fight their way back over 1000 miles to Greece. This is Xenophon’s recounting and it is fascinating. He describes their plans, execution, suffering, and the tribes they meet along the way. This unabridged audio book is read wonderfully and I really enjoyed it from start to finish.”
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Jrobertus (4 out of 5 stars)
