Ἀνάβασις

Anabasis

Author

Xenophon

Language

Classical Attic Greek

Year

c. 370 BC

Country

Classical Athens

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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Anabasis is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand, an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BC.