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The retreat of the ten thousand

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The retreat of the ten thousand

by C. (Carl) Witt, Xenophon

EN·~4 hours·47 chapters

Chapters

47 total

Transcriber’s Note

0:21

THERETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND

1:37

PREFACE

4:02

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

1:35

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1:01

THE RETREAT OF THE TEN THOUSAND

0:02

7:57

8:20

III

1:37

8:30

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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon)

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~4 hours (259K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.

Credits

Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2023-10-17

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71894

Subjects

Iran -- History -- To 640 Cyrus, the Younger, approximately 423 B.C.-401 B.C.Greece -- History -- Expedition of Cyrus, 401 B.C.PT

About the authors

C. (Carl) Witt

1815–1891

A German classicist, teacher, and liberal politician, he turned Greek myth and history into lively retellings for younger readers. His books helped bring the ancient world to a wider audience through clear, engaging storytelling.

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Xenophon

-431–-355

A soldier, historian, and student of Socrates, this Athenian writer turned firsthand experience into vivid accounts of war, leadership, and everyday life in the Greek world. Best known for Anabasis, he remains one of the clearest and most practical voices to survive from classical antiquity.

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