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Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophonâs Anabasis consists of seven books. This prose narrative recounts the experiences of Greek mercenaries who fought for Cyrus the Younger and their subsequent retreat from Babylon to the Black Sea.1