The Persian Expedition
by Xenophon Xenophon · first published 2018
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on “Ask HN: good books about military strategy?” ↗Xenophon's "Persian Expedition" is one of my favorite books. It's picaresque yet sincere in a way that few writers achieve.
on “Cyropaedia of Xenophon: The Life of Cyrus The Great” ↗…no guarantee that it will continue to do so. The idea that those who take and keep power by whatever means have a moral right to it is not new. I recently finished reading Xenophon's Anabasis (aka The Persian Expedition), and this philosophy seeps through just about every page as the Greek army lays waste to anyone not deemed of benefit to them, even fellow Greeks. Xenophon was a close friend of Socrates, remember. Xenophon…
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