1822 Xenophotis Cyri Expeditio

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Folding Maps, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In the original Greek with Latin translations. With a folding map. Collated complete. A translation of the work of Xenophon of Athens, a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand. This work provides account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand, an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BC. With notes by Thomas Hutchinson, a British literary editor.