Scripta Minora: Hiero. Agesilaus. Constitution of the Lacedaemonians. Ways and Means. the Cavalry Commander. on the Art of Horsemanshi [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Xenophon and E.C. Marchant

A miscellany of minor works.

Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this "March...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674992024
• ISBN13: 9780674992023
• Release Date: January 1925
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.6" x 6.7"