The Persian Expedition [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0140440070 ISBN 13: 9780140440072

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2025

Riassunto

In The Persian Expedition, Senofonte, un giovane nobile ateniese che cercò il suo destino all'estero, fornisce un avvincente resoconto da testimone oculare del tentativo di un esercito mercenario greco, i Diecimila, di aiutare il principe Ciro a rovesciare il fratello e a prendere il trono persiano. Quando i Greci furono traditi dai loro datori di lavoro persiani, furono costretti a marciare verso casa attraverso centinaia di miglia di terreno difficile, alla deriva in un paese ostile e sotto costante attacco da parte degli spietati Persiani e delle tribù guerriere. In questa straordinaria descrizione di resistenza e coraggio individuale, Senofonte, uno di quelli scelti per guidare l'esercito in ritirata, fornisce una vivida narrazione della campagna e delle sue conseguenze, e il suo resoconto rimane una delle migliori immagini che abbiamo dei Greci che affrontano un mondo "barbaro".

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Informazioni sull?autore

Xenophon was an Athenian country gentleman born about 430 BC. He may have helped to publish Thucydides’ History, and certainly wrote his own Hellenica as a continuation of it. By his own (probably reliable) account he was a fine officer and outstanding leader, but his admiration for Sparta and devotion to Socrates, among other causes, led to his banishment. He was given an estate at Scillus and settled down to enjoy the life of a landed aristocrat, and it was during this period that he began to write histories, biographies, memoirs and specialist treatises. The defeat of Sparta in 371 forced him to move to Corinth where he probably lived for the rest of his life.
Rex Warner was a Professor of the University of Connecticut from 1964 until his retirement in He was born in 1905 and went to Wadham College, Oxford, where he gained a ‘first’ in Classical Moderations, and took a degree in English Literature. He taught in Egypt and England, and was Director of the British Institute, Athens, from 1945 to 1947. He has written poems, novels and critical essays, has worked on films and broadcasting, and has translated many works, of which Xenophon’s History of My Time and The Persian Expedition, Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War, and Plutarch’s Lives (under the title Fall of the Roman Republic) and Moral Essays have been published in Penguin Classics.
George Cawkwell is a Fellow and Praelector in Ancient History of University College, Oxford. He has specialized in the history of the fourth century B.C.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140440070
• ISBN 13: 9780140440072
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384
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