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Xenophon’s Anabasis, Schedule for Roundtable This Fall
We will be using the translation of Xenophon’s Anabasis of Cyrus by Wayne Ambler. Mr. Ambler’s translation received several good reviews, including this one in Military Review. I will post our list of...
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Xenophon Roundtable: Revised Schedule
The revised schedule is for our roundtable on Xenophon’s Anabasis of Cyrus is as follows: Week of September 13, 2009: Posts re: Books I, II, III and IV Week of September 20, 2009: Posts re: Books V,...
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Xenophon Roundtable: List of Contributors
Our Xenophon Roundtable begins this week. Xenophon’s Anabasis of Cyrus was written roughly 2,400 years ago. Yet it is still of interest and value today, for many reasons. It is an exciting tale of...
View ArticleXenophon Roundtable: Xenophon was a Professional
An army marches on its stomach – Napoleon Bonaparte While we have no real idea how much insight Xenophon possessed when he joined the invasion of Persia, the Anabasis is written by a professional with...
View ArticleAlexander and Cyrus: Two Different Routes to Babylon
by Steven Pressfield Great initial post about logistics! Here’s a related piece–a comparison between Alexander the Great and Cyrus the Younger and their different strategic/logistical solutions to a...
View ArticleXenophon’s Ascent
The title of the book under consideration is, in English translation, The Anabasis of Cyrus. The title has two key words, a noun “anabasis” and a proper name “Cyrus”. The identity of Cyrus is...
View ArticleXenophon Roundtable: The Shadow of Herodotus
Cunaxa is an interesting counter-point to the three traditional pillars of Herodotus’s Histories, Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea. While those three confrontations took place in or near Attica, the...
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Tips for Reading The Anabasis
Tigris River [Jonathan adds: A larger version of this image is below the “Read the rest” link.] The opening phase of this discussion of Greek soldier, historian Xenophon’s account of the expedition to...
View ArticleXenophon Roundtable: Clearchus Delenda Est!
Of all of the characters in the first section of the Anabasis, Clearchus is among the most important, and perhaps the most intriguing. In Clearchus’s obituary, Xenophon describes a ruthless officer who...
View ArticleXenophon Roundtable: The Art of Leadership
Prior to the roundtable, Dave Schuler a friend an astute blogger, asked if it mattered to me if Xenophon’s Anabasis of Cyrus turned out to be a work of fiction? I thought for a moment and replied that...
View ArticleXenophon Roundtable: The Building of a Political Community
I had never read Xenophon before and while a great fan of Thucydides, had never spent much time reading ancient Greek – as opposed to Byzantine – history. This was a challenge for me and while I can’t...
View ArticleXenophon Roundtable: A Few Martial Rhymes
Mark Twain wrote, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” The Anabasis of Cyrus is filled with events that have reappeared throughout history to form a rhythm that if not repeated, lends...
View ArticleXenophon Roundtable: The Army Reaches Level Ground
Xenophon’s account, written many years after the events recounted, is not a bare retelling of facts. We cannot know how much of the tale is embellished, and how much is literal. The general outlines...
View ArticleXenophon Roundtable: More Rhythmic Echos
The Anabasis of Cyrus could also be titled “The Long Retreat” because it best describes the result of a failed campaign. The army made up of mercenaries had been strategically defeated when Cyrus...
View ArticleXenophon Roundtable: Politics in a Bottle
Carl von Clausewitz famously asserted that war is the continuation of political intercourse with the addition of other means. The Anabasis of Cyrus puts this assertion to the test, reducing the...
View ArticleThe Temptation of Xenophon
The Anabasis of Cyrus, Book VI. Chapter 1. “As they were thinking about all this, they began to turn to Xenophon. The captains approached him and said that army was of this judgment, and each showed...
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Marching Upcountry with Xenophon
The Xenophon Roundtable is coming to it’s conclusion. While we may see a few more “final” posts this week, for the most part, we have had our say. This was the third roundtable hosted by Chicago Boyz...
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Obama, US Military Victory, and the Real “Red Line” in Syria
The thing that really bothers me in all the back and forth surrounding the American strike on the Assad Regime debate, and the Democratic Party aligned media spin of what the meaning of words “Red...
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