xenophon in English

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( circa 435– circa 354 bc ) , Greek historian, writer, and military leader. From 401, he fought with Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II. The campaign and retreat are recorded in the Anabasis . Other notable writings include the Hellenica , a history of Greece.

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1. Lucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon' (ca

2. The story is told by Xenophon in his Anabasis.

3. Arrian's full name is Lucius Flavius Arrianus, aka Xenophon, and he comes from a wealthy Greek family

4. In 1852 he also edited a new edition of Charles Anthon's text of the Anabasis of Xenophon.

5. Xenophon 's Anabasis describes a groups of Spartan soldiers singing to Poseidon a paean - a kind of hymn normally sung for Apollo.

6. For Xenophon, Anaxagoras belongs in a category of people who concern themselves with the nature of everything, especially its organization (kosmos), processes, and origins.

7. The term "Boeotian helmet", however, is an exception since it was employed by Xenophon and is therefore of contemporary usage

8. Arrian Lucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon' BirthplaceNicomedia, Bithynia, Asia Minor Occupation Historian, Public servant, military commander and Philosopher Arrian (Flavius Arrianus) (âr`ēən), fl

9. HELPS Word-studies 3726 horkízō (from 3727 /hórkos , "an oath") – properly, make someone swear (as in Xenophon, Polybius); to Adjure ( Abbott-Smith ), i.e

10. By the age of eight he had read Aesop's Fables , Xenophon 's Anabasis , and the whole of Herodotus , and was acquainted with Lucian , Diogenes Laërtius , Isocrates and six dialogues of Plato (see his Autobiography).

11. Persian carpets were first mentioned around 400 BC, by the Greek author Xenophon in his book "Anabasis": "αὖθις δὲ Τιμασίωνι τῷ Δαρδανεῖ προσελθών, ἐπεὶ ἤκουσεν αὐτῷ εἶναι καὶ ἐκπώματα καὶ τάπιδας βαρβαρικάς", (Xen. anab.

12. Although Tilg includes a discussion on Xenophon of Ephesus, whom he deems the only other ‘big five’ author to rival Chariton for this coveted position, it is clear through his critique of O’Sullivan that Xenophon’s higher proportion of Atticisms (16% vs

13. ‘The Avestan yasna is equivalent to yajna, zrazda to shraddha, and kavi is common to both texts.’ ‘The word paradise comes from the Avestan word pairidaêza, ‘a walled garden,’ which Xenophon transliterated into Greek as paradeisos.’

14. Stoic Six Pack 6 - The Cyrenaics: Aristippus, Dionysius the Renegade, On the Contempt of Death, Phaedo, Philebus and Socrates vs Aristippus (Illustrated) - Kindle edition by Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Laërtius, Diogenes, Plato, Smith, William, Xenophon, Dakyns, Henry Graham, Jowett, Benjamin, Yonge, Charles Duke

15. Together with Atticisms we must mention a considerable number of words from Attic prose and comedy which Schmid does not mention, namely 32 literary terms taken from Thucydides (7rEplopOpov), Aristophanes (qvAAof3oAEw), Plato (18toAoy`w), Xenophon (ataKLvOtvofaf`sg), etc., which increase the list of ancient literary terms.

16. Around 400 BC, the Greek author Xenophon mentions “carpets” in his book “Anabasis”: "αὖθις δὲ Τιμασίωνι τῷ Δαρδανεῖ προσελθών, ἐπεὶ ἤκουσεν αὐτῷ εἶναι καὶ ἐκπώματα καὶ τάπιδας βαρβαρικάς" Next he went to Timasion the Dardanian, for he heard that he had some Persian drinking cups and carpets. "καὶ Τιμασίων προπίνων ἐδωρήσατο φιάλην τε ἀργυρᾶν καὶ τάπιδα ἀξίαν δέκα μνῶν."