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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 19th-century German classicist, teacher, and liberal public figure, he became known to English-language readers through lively retellings of Greek myth and ancient history for younger audiences. His books helped make the ancient world feel clear, dramatic, and approachable.

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Xenophon

-431–-355

A soldier, historian, and student of Socrates, this Athenian writer turned firsthand experience into some of the most vivid prose to survive from ancient Greece. His works blend action, politics, and philosophy in a way that still feels direct and human.

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