ANABASIS

Ten thousand Greek soldiers march deep into enemy territory. Their leader is dead. Their commanders are betrayed. Now they must find their own way home. In Anabasis, Xenophon recounts one of the most remarkable military journeys of the ancient world. Greek mercenaries join Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to seize the Persian throne, but after Cyrus is killed at the Battle of Cunaxa, the expedition is transformed into a desperate struggle for survival. Surrounded by hostile forces and separated from Greece by vast distances, mountains, rivers, and unfamiliar peoples, the soldiers must fight, negotiate, improvise, and endure. Xenophon himself emerges as one of their leaders, giving the narrative the immediacy of an eyewitness account. Part military history, part adventure, and part study of leadership under pressure, Anabasis offers an extraordinary portrait of courage, discipline, strategy, loyalty, and survival in the ancient world. Complete and unabridged, this edition presents H. G. Dakyns’s classic English translation of all seven books.