<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px}</style><title></title></head><body id="compText">Dear James and all:<br>
<br>
The Anabasis IS rather interesting in the light of Xenophon's
Hellenika. We discussed it a bit briefly, perhaps after you left.
Xenophon had the opportunity to join some hoplite mercenaries who were
going to work for prince and satrap Cyrus the Younger, who was aiming
for the Persian throne. Against Socrates' advice, he did join. They
were very successful for a while, until Cyrus was killed in battle.
Then the Greeks had the knotty problem to how to get out of Asia Minor
alive, seeing that Artaxerxes, the new king, was naturally not
favorable to them. At this point, Xenophon takes over as a leading
general to lead them back to Greece.<br>
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Xenophon's experiences were doubtlessly of great help to Agesilaos in
his campaigns in Asia Minor, and also to Alexander's later conquest of
Persia.<br>
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"The Warriors" is indeed a excellent and interesting film, and brings
Anabasis to New York gangs, just like "West Side Story" brought "Romeo
and Juliet" to the same gangs. Another adaption of the Anabasis is
"The March Upcountry", a science-fiction series by John Ringo.<br>
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I'm afraid I have no advice for a version of the Anabasis. I have sort
of half of it in a Greek textbook, where we read up to the death of
Cyrus in Greek. (I haven't really read it in Greek; the other half of
the text is the book of John in the Bible, which I did study.)<br>
<br>
Alexander J. Wei<br><br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
<br>From: James Janicki <yanitski@earthlink.net>
<br>Sent: Mar 23, 2010 10:25 AM
<br>To: xenophon2010@readingodyssey.org
<br>Subject: [Xenophon] Anabasis
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
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<p>Jim<br><br></p></zzzbody>
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