But with this simple verbal repetition, "thalatta, thalatta" (or "thalassa, thalassa," for those who prefer the Ionic-dialect spelling), the soldiers and their chronicler, Xenophon, gave an ...

Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta!” The cry in fact comes from the “Anabasis” of Xenophon, the Athenian general, historian and braggart ...

Xenophon the Athenian, perhaps better than anyone in history, unified the life of philosophy with the life of politics. His book, the Anabasis of Cyrus, shows you how.

But the ancient book that significantly influenced Machiavelli, Xenophon's "Cyropaedia" — which translates to "The Education of Cyrus" — depicts a leader who believes quite the opposite ...

When Arthur Edward Imperatore III showed up at his adviser’s office to discuss the first draft of his senior thesis, he was anxious. He knew that the classics department encouraged, alongside ...

Across his eclectic literary oeuvre Xenophon displays a remarkable interest in women and their role and value in society. Shining a spotlight on the portraits in his Socratic works of two women of ...