Name: The Long March: Xenophon and the ten Thousand (in English)
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Author: Robin Lane Fox
ISBN: 9780300104035

portada The Long March: Xenophon and the ten Thousand (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robin Lane Fox

Publisher

Yale University Press

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Weight

1.70

ISBN

9780300104035

ISBN13

9780300104035

Synopsis "The Long March: Xenophon and the ten Thousand (in English)"

The March of the Ten Thousand is one of the most famous military adventures in the ancient world. Its fearless army of Greek mercenaries marched through western Asia (modern Turkey and Iraq) in 401–399 B.C., their hopes and hardships recounted by Xenophon, the Athenian, an admiring pupil of Socrates. Xenophon’s history of the Long March, or Anabasis, is a classic of Greek literature.In this book, twelve leading scholars explore the Anabasis, a deceptively simple and profoundly rich source of social and cultural history and the mentality of the ancient Greek participants. The contributors explore a wide range of topics, from Xenophon’s values, motives, and manner as a writer to the outlook of his companions as mercenary soldiers, from his descriptions of religion in soldiers’ lives to their relations with women, boys, and the many foreign peoples encountered during the march.

Robin Lane Fox

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(Eton, 1946) es miembro del New College de Oxford, universidad en la que obtuvo el doctorado en Historia Antigua. Ha sido también corresponsal del Financial Times durante más de treinta años. Desde su publicación en 1973, Alejandro Magno (que ha recibido los Premios Duff Cooper Memorial, James Tait Black Memorial y W.H. Heinemann) se ha convertido en un auténtico libro de referencia. Como parte de la investigación que condujo a la escritura de Alejandro Magno, viajó durante años entre Grecia y la India, buscando huellas del conquistador de Asia.

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