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Which major war does Xenophon cover at the beginning of Hellenica?
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At the beginning of his work Hellenica, the Greek historian Xenophon covers the final years of the Peloponnesian War, specifically the period from 411 to 404 BCE.1
Xenophon intended this initial section to complete the unfinished historical account of Thucydides, who had left off his own narrative in 411 BCE.12