Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. In Aristotle’s Politics, an interesting anecdote about Thales the Milesian is ...

Many things survive from antiquity. In Egypt alone every rubbish heap seems almost routinely to disburse some precious fragment from a forgotten philosopher or a sliver of verse by a once celebrated ...

Columbia Pictures is developing a film based on Anabasis, a memoir written around 400 B.C. by Xenophon, a Greek soldier who was among 10,000 elite mercenaries who attacked the Persian Empire and who ...

How long before a Hollywood critic of the Iraq War announces a blockbuster based on the "Anabasis" of Xenophon? Here we have a classic story of an army raised in the cradle of democracy, led into ...

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