The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand. Edited by Robin Lane Fox. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 288. $45.00.)

"The Sea! The Sea!"--that, as many a schoolboy used to know, is a refrain first widely broadcast in Xenophon's Anabasis (The Journey Up Country). It was uttered by the survivors of the "Ten Thousand" Greek mercenaries who had made their way back, against the odds, from the heart of the Persian empire (in what is now northern Iraq) to within sight of the Black Sea. They were located above modern-day Boztepe in Turkey, as the ...

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