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The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand Hardcover – November 10, 2004

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3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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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.
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    376 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Yale University Press
  4. Publication date
    November 10, 2004
  5. Dimensions
    6.46 x 1.3 x 9.46 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0300104030
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0300104035
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Robin Lane Fox is reader in ancient history at Oxford University and a fellow of New College. Among his books is Alexander the Great (1973).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (November 10, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 376 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300104030
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300104035
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.46 x 1.3 x 9.46 inches
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James Hercules Sutton
3.0 out of 5 stars An Artifact in Itself.
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2007
A dozen specialists assemble to discuss their speciality. They write papers and read them to one another. The papers repeat what they know and a few things that are new. These are published in a book.

They remind each other that a parasang was a unit of time, not space; that Xenophon was often self-serving; and that motives of Greeks on the march were mixed. These are worth being reminded of, but not new. Recent discoveries in Persian studies are mentioned, but not examined. None realizes that the Cyropaedea is as much a treatise on an ideal curriculum, an issue that was on Plato's mind, as it is an encomium for Cyrus. Many, based on their own attention spans, are certain that Xenophon could not possibly have reported long speeches verbatim, decades after the fact, without contemporaneous notes. None speculates that Xenophon's name, "foreign voice," might have significance.

The book covers important issues and reports current directions of scholarship for specialists in other fields as well as laity. But its most interesting aspect may be the character of examiners themselves. Their intellectual style, strategies, and speculations reveal the pathology of those who dedicate themselves to knowing more and more about less and less. This makes it diverting, as well as improving, for the careful reader.
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manolo saborit
4.0 out of 5 stars excellent if somewhat unequal
Reviewed in Spain on January 15, 2017
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The book is a collection of essays by university professors on the theme of the anabasis. For an enthusisast of the marvelous adventure narrated bi xenophon it is a mus, but you have to be familiar with te facts. There are many books and translations of Anábasis, you need notes by an specialist. Robin waterfield, or the penguin edition i may recommend.
Why not five stars? maybe it should have got five stars.
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