The Loeb Classical Library: Hellenica, Volume I : Books 1–4

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The Loeb Classical Library: Hellenica, Volume I : Books 1–4Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this March Up Country (Anabasis); but meanwhile he

Aesop was reputedly a tongue-tied slave who miraculously received the power of speech

but also the father of ethnography

A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems

first published by CUP in 1952

The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new

and boxes focusing in on key people

and peopled with freshly interpreted figures of classical Greek mythology

placing the text in relation to Roman literature in general

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Tacitus is in five volumes

and on what that poetry meant in the third century BC

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