How did Xenophon use the money gained during his military campaigns?

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Xenophon Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.

Xenophon used the wealth he acquired as a mercenary to purchase land and establish a private estate at Scillus, located near Olympia across the Alpheus River.1

On this property, he erected a small-scale replica of the famous Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. In his work Anabasis, Xenophon provides a detailed description of this sacred estate and the annual quasi-civic festival he established there.1