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The exploits of Xenophon / Geoffrey Household.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cynthiana, Kentucky : Purple House Press, [2023], , ©1983Copyright date: © 2023Description: vii, 137 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9798888180327
  • 9798888180310
Related works:
  • adaptation of (work): Xenophon. Anabasis
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Contents:
March of the ten thousand map -- The camp -- The battle of Cunaxa -- Xenophon takes action -- Kurdistan -- Winter -- The sea -- Discipline breaks down -- Back to Europe -- The last adventure.
Summary: More than 2,400 years ago one of the most thrilling war stories in history was being read and discussed in Greece. It was called the Anabasis and was written by a Greek noble named Xenophon, who described at first hand what he did, what he suffered, and what he saw during a campaign against the Persians. The Exploits of Xenophon is a vivid text that reads as if it had been written by a leader in the last war. In it, Geoffrey Household has cut the Anabasis to a quarter of its length and modernized Xenophon's style. It retells much of the war hero's own story, a superb picture of a valiant Greek army and its impact upon the ancient civilization of the East. In that day, it was customary for men to hire themselves out as soldiers fighting for another country. More than 13,000 Greeks, including Xenophon, were serving with Cyrus, one of the imperial governors of ancient Persia. Cyrus wanted to seize the throne from his brother, Artaxerxes; but in the Battle of Cunaxa, Cyrus was killed and his Greek army was defeated. Panic seized the men as they realized they were leaderless and 1,000 miles from their native Greece. In short order, they selected Xenophon as one of their new commanders and began the heroic retreat through enemy territory. And all the way the armed Persian hordes continued their attack with poisonous arrows, sweeping sabers, or great boulders from high mountain passes. To read The Exploits of Xenophon is to read a story as vivid as if it had been written by an army colonel in the last war.Summary: When Cyrus and the Greek military leaders are killed in an attempt to seize the throne of Persia, Xenophon, a young Greek soldier, is chosen to lead the troops out of the hostile country.
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, 1955. Copyright © renewed 1983 by Geoffrey Household.

March of the ten thousand map -- The camp -- The battle of Cunaxa -- Xenophon takes action -- Kurdistan -- Winter -- The sea -- Discipline breaks down -- Back to Europe -- The last adventure.

More than 2,400 years ago one of the most thrilling war stories in history was being read and discussed in Greece. It was called the Anabasis and was written by a Greek noble named Xenophon, who described at first hand what he did, what he suffered, and what he saw during a campaign against the Persians. The Exploits of Xenophon is a vivid text that reads as if it had been written by a leader in the last war. In it, Geoffrey Household has cut the Anabasis to a quarter of its length and modernized Xenophon's style. It retells much of the war hero's own story, a superb picture of a valiant Greek army and its impact upon the ancient civilization of the East. In that day, it was customary for men to hire themselves out as soldiers fighting for another country. More than 13,000 Greeks, including Xenophon, were serving with Cyrus, one of the imperial governors of ancient Persia. Cyrus wanted to seize the throne from his brother, Artaxerxes; but in the Battle of Cunaxa, Cyrus was killed and his Greek army was defeated. Panic seized the men as they realized they were leaderless and 1,000 miles from their native Greece. In short order, they selected Xenophon as one of their new commanders and began the heroic retreat through enemy territory. And all the way the armed Persian hordes continued their attack with poisonous arrows, sweeping sabers, or great boulders from high mountain passes. To read The Exploits of Xenophon is to read a story as vivid as if it had been written by an army colonel in the last war.

When Cyrus and the Greek military leaders are killed in an attempt to seize the throne of Persia, Xenophon, a young Greek soldier, is chosen to lead the troops out of the hostile country.

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