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ANABASIS

By Xenophon

Translation by H. G. Dakyns

      Dedicated To
      Rev. B. Jowett, M.A.
      Master of Balliol College
      Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford



      Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a
      pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,
      and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
      and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
      years before having to move once more, to settle
      in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.

      The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
      to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
      take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
      return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
      leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
      March 399 B.C.

PREPARER'S NOTE

This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though there is doubt about some of these) is:

 Work                                   Number of books

 The Anabasis                                         7
 The Hellenica                                        7
 The Cyropaedia                                       8
 The Memorabilia                                      4
 The Symposium                                        1
 The Economist                                        1
 On Horsemanship                                      1
 The Sportsman                                        1
 The Cavalry General                                  1
 The Apology                                          1
 On Revenues                                          1
 The Hiero                                            1
 The Agesilaus                                        1
 The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians   2

Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical marks have been lost.

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