Anabasis
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Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.…
Details
- AuthorXenophon
- SourceProject Gutenberg #1170
- Length95,275 words · 6h 21m of reading
- Chapters17
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
17 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Translation by H. G. Dakyns
- 02PREPARER'S NOTE
- 03Work Number of books
- 04BOOK I
- 05IX
- 06BOOK II
- 07BOOK III
- 08BOOK IV
- 09BOOK V
- 10BOOK VI
- 11BOOK VII
- 12II
- 13III
- 14IV
- 15VI
- 16VII
- 17VIII
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