WARRIORS & WEAPONS
Jan 04, 2022
3 minutes
The Landmark Xenophon’s Anabasis
Edited by Shane Brennan and David Thomas; translated by David Thomas 672 pages.
Pantheon, 2021. $49.50.
Reviewed by Marc G. DeSantis
is a military history, as well as a crackling adventure story, with few equals. The (Cyrus’s March Upcountry) is probably better known today as , or simply as the . It tells the story of the ill-fated expedition of Xenophon of Athens and more than 10,000 Greek mercenaries to fight for the throne of Persia on behalf of Prince
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