[Xenophon] Anabasis

[Andre Stipanovic]

Hi Jim,
I love the Anabasis.  It's a very well written book by Xenophon, full of
interesting episodes of what happened to the "10,000" Greek mercenaries
trying to escape from Persia after Cyrus' death in battle.  The movie "The
Warriors" parallels the story and is set in New York City.
I have read parts of the Anabasis ("a going up the country") in Greek and
found that my favorite English translation is the latest revised (by John
Dillery) edition of the Loeb Classical Library.  There are less expensive
versions out there published by Penguin and Oxford Classics as well which,
while being less literal, probably flow better.
There is a great book out recently (2006) called "Xenophon's Retreat" by
Robin Waterfield.  He physically takes the route that the 10,000 took
through the hinterlands of Asia Minor and comments on the Anabasis the
whole way.
Andre

James Janicki <yanitski at earthlink.net> writes:
>I had to drop off the call 30 minutes early yesterday and I wanted to ask
>if anyone knew whether the Anabasis was interesting to read?  If so,
>then who's version is the best to read?  I'm wondering this because I
>remember seeing a movie back in 1979 called "Warriors" and I hear its a
>bit of a cult action movie now.  It was about a gang leader in New York
>who called all the disparate gangs together to unite under him to take
>over the city.  His name was "Cyrus."  He was killed during the big
>meeting and the gang called "Warriors" was unjustly accused of doing it
>so all the other gangs were out to get them.  The movie is about their
>battles and trials as they fight their way back through all the different
>gangs looking for them until they return to their home turf.  I recently
>heard the movie used elements from Anabasis and this is where my interest
>in reading Anabasis comes from.
>
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>Thanks,
>
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>
>Jim

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