The Historian WE NEED - XENOPHON
349The story of the legendary Army of Ten Thousand Greek mercenaries who returned from Persia and their commander who told it to us by experiencing it firsthand, Xenophon, the warrior historian.
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Primary sources, essays and insights:
Canfora L., Il mondo di Atene, 2011
Diogenes Laertius, Life of Xenophon, 3rd century AD.
Dodge T. A., History of the Art of War, 1890-1907
Durant W., The Story of Civilization Volume 2: The Life of Greece, 1939
Lane Fox R., The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand, 2004
Mitford T., Thalatta, Thalatta: Xenophon's View of the Black Sea, 2000
Montagu J. D., Battles of the Greek and Roman Worlds, 2000
Plutarch, Life of Pericles, 1st-2nd century AD.
Xenophon, All works, 4th century BC.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, 5th century BC.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:06 The Spartans and the Persians
06:51 The True Thought of a Greek
20:05 The Expedition of Cyrus
27:49 Problematic Deals
32:21 Thálatta! Thálatta!
43:00 The Warrior Historian
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Background Music:
"Battlefield" and "Vupna" by Alexander Nakarada (www.creatorchords.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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"Imperial Roman Music" by Hudson Link