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- Greek soldier and writer. A disciple of Socrates, he joined Cyrus the Younger in an attack on Persia. After the death of Cyrus, Xenophon led the Greek troops to the Black Sea, an ordeal he recounted in Anabasis.
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- proper noun
Athenian historian andphilosopher born 427 BCE and author of the Anabasis and Memorabilia. He was apupil ofSocrates and became ageneral during thePersian wars.
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- noun Greek general and historian; student of Socrates (430-355 BC)
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In the town of Sardis, within the satrapy of Lydia, the young philosopher-warrior Xenophon is about to embark on a most historic mission.
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Under the orders of the young prince Cyrus of Persia, Xenophon is to travel into the harsh deserts with ten thousand men in an effort to take over all of Persia, giving Cyrus full reign over this arid land.
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Profit is also found in Xenophon, Ovid, Thucydides, Cicero and Virgil.
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Top 10 Most Influential Books: 2010
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Xenophon is a democrat kind of a guy, a liberal, a union man, with some experience participating at the precinct, and county caucus levels.
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One example would be Strauss’ 1948 book On Tyranny, a study in Xenophon’s dialogue Hiero, in which Strauss embraces the concept of the philosopher-tyrant “who has committed any number of crimes” in the pursuit of the interests of his polis.
Balkinization 2006
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You are in DEEP TROUBLE when you are reading Matthew Arnold, and he is listing off a few Greeks, and when you see the name Xenophon, your mind exclaims, "THAT'S A REAL NAME?????"
Paraphrasing Book II of Paradise Lost fantasyecho 2006
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Nehamas subjects Socrates to a far more telling reading of the same kind with no evidence beyond Plato and Xenophon, which is to say, as he recognizes, no evidence at all of any Socrates behind those texts.
Notes on 'Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality' 2006
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Others were busy setting the place on fire; and they kept calling Xenophon by name: “Come out, Xenophon, and die like a man, or we will roast you alive inside.”
Anabasis 2007
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These they agreed to restore if he would not burn their houses, and to these terms Xenophon agreed.
Anabasis 2007
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Some Persic words may be found in Xenophon, and some Latin ones in Plutarch; and such is the inevitable effect of war and commerce; but the form and substance of the language were not affected by this slight alloy.] 79 The life of Francis
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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