Κύρου Ἀνάβασις
Anabasis
Xenophon Ξενοφῶν · c. 430 – c. 354 BCE
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Ten thousand Greek mercenaries follow Cyrus the Younger into Persia in 401 BCE, win the battle and lose their employer, then have their generals killed by treachery. Xenophon, one of the new leaders, tells how they marched north through mountains and snow to the Black Sea. It is plain, vivid and practical, a soldier's book. He writes of himself in the third person and does not undersell his part.