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Lädt ... Anabasis, Books 1-4 [Ancient Greek]von Xenophon
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The Anabasis is Xenophon's historical narrative describing the retreat of Cyrus's army ("the ten-thousand") following his untimely death. It is told in the third person and filled with colorful characters and descriptions of camp life. The Greek word 'anabasis' means literally 'a going upward' but in military terms it meant taking an army inland from the shore. The narrative might well have been called "Katabasis", which means a journey to the coast from the interior since that is what the ten thousand accomplished. Xenophon was a professional soldier as well as a writer, and he was part of the mercenary army of Cyrus that was hired to attack and take over the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II. The battle went to the Greeks, but since Cyrus was dead there was no point in keeping the field and the army marched north towards the nearest Greek settlements. After numerous hardships and adventures narrated by Xenophon in a clear, hard-edged style that reminds one of Caesar's description of his Gallic campaigns, the army finally reaches the sea at which they give a shout of joy for the Greeks are a great seafaring people and much at home upon the waves. Well worth reading in the classic Greek if you can manage it. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Excerpt from The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis: With Notes Adapted to the Revised and Enlarged Edition of Goodwin's Greek Grammar, and a Copperplate Map Rudiments of Greek. In the opinion of the Editors it is highly desirable to use as small a portion as possible of the classic literature as a corpus vile for the more minute dissection, and to enable pupils at the earliest possible moment to read Greek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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