Anabasis. Xenophon

Xenophon (430 BC - 356 BC) - an ancient Greek writer and historian, student and friend Socrates, commander and politician.

“Anabasis” is the most famous of the historical and biographical essays of the Athenian Ksenophon, in which he described the campaign of the Greek army to front Asia on Babylon in 401 BC. e. and his subsequent retreat to the ancient Greek Byzantium.

For future generations, this campaign, thanks to the story of Xenophon, turned from failure into “one of the greatest adventures in the history of mankind”, and the work itself had a huge impact on Hellenic and Roman prose.