Xenophon: The Anabasis of Cyrus.(Book review)

Military Review | January 1, 2009| | Copyright

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XENOPHON: The Anabasis of Cyrus, trans. by Wayne Ambler with an Introduction by Eric Buzzetti, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2008, 304 pages, $49.95.

Not long ago Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus needed no introduction for the student of classics (ancient Greek and Roman civilization) or military history. Today this is not necessarily true, as the traditional pillars of a well-grounded liberal education have fallen by the wayside, victims of academic revisionism against histories written by "dead white males." That said, readers ...

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