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Xenophon

Ξενοφῶν

Country

Classical Athens

Languages

Classical Attic Greek

Dates

c. 430 - c. 354 BC

Xenophon

Xenophon of Athens was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian. At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been part of Cyrus the Younger's attempt to seize control of the Achaemenid Empire. As the military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge wrote, "the centuries since have devised nothing to surpass the genius of this warrior".

Works

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους πρὸς τοὺς Δικαστάς

Apology of Socrates to the Jury

Classical Attic Greek · c. 386-385 BCSpeech / Dialogue

Ἀνάβασις

Anabasis

Classical Attic Greek · c. 370 BCNonfiction / Essays / Treatise

Κύρου παιδεία

Cyropaedia

Classical Attic Greek · c. 370 BCBiography / Memoir / Reportage

Συμπόσιον

Symposium of Xenophon

Classical Attic Greek · c. 369-365 BCSpeech / Dialogue

Οἰκονομικός

Oeconomicus

Classical Attic Greek · c. 362 BCSpeech / Dialogue

Ἑλληνικά

Hellenica

Classical Attic Greek · c. 360Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

ἔργα ἐλάσσω (scripta minora)

Minor Works

Classical Attic Greek · c. 400 - 355 BCNonfiction / Essays / Treatise

Ἀπομνημονεύματα

Memorabilia (Recollections of Socrates)

Classical Attic Greek · c. 370-354 BCSpeech / Dialogue

Short Works