The retreat of the ten thousand by C. Witt and Xenophon
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"The Retreat of the Ten Thousand" by C. Witt and Xenophon is an ancient Greek account written around 370 BC. It tells the story of ten thousand Greek mercenaries stranded deep in Persia after their employer, Cyrus the Younger, dies in battle against his brother. With their leaders killed by treachery, the soldiers must fight their way north through hostile territory, treacherous mountains, and foodless deserts to reach the safety of the
Black Sea. Their desperate journey becomes one of history's greatest survival adventures. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Witt, C. (Carl), 1815-1891 |
|---|---|
| Author | Xenophon, 432 BCE-351? BCE |
| Author of introduction, etc. | Dakyns, Henry Graham, 1838-1911 |
| Translator | Younghusband, Frances |
| Uniform Title | Die tapferen 10,000. English |
| Title | The retreat of the ten thousand |
| Original Publication | London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon) |
| Note | Based on Xenophon's Anabasis. |
| Credits | Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | Iran -- History -- To 640 |
| Subject | Cyrus, the Younger, approximately 423 B.C.-401 B.C. |
| Subject | Greece -- History -- Expedition of Cyrus, 401 B.C. |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 71894 |
| Release Date | Oct 17, 2023 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 465 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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