Anabasis: References & Edit History
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Three translations are widely available: Carleton L. Brownson (trans.), Anabasis, rev. ed. (1998), rev. by John Dillery (1998), part of The Loeb Classical Library, with Greek and English on facing pages; Robin Waterfield (trans.), The Expedition of Cyrus, introduction and notes by Tim Rood (2005); and Wayne Ambler (trans.), The Anabasis of Cyrus (2008). A valuable commentary is Jan P. Stronk, The Ten Thousand in Thrace: An Archaeological and Historical Commentary on Xenophon’s Anabasis, Books VI.iii-vi-VII (1995).
Books about Anabasis include Robin Waterfield, Xenophon’s Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age (2006); and Robin Lane Fox (ed.), The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (2004), a collection of essays. Effects on later literature are examined in Tim Rood, The Sea! The Sea!: The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (2004).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: Internet Archive - Xenophon's Anabasis. | Aug 01, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hoover Institution - Anabasis, by Xenophon. | Aug 01, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Adelaide - "Anabasis". | Oct 15, 2014 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 07, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Feb 07, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |