Cyropédie Islam 321 Des Grecs buveurs de

321 Des Grecs buveurs de sang

Jean de Marville

These are the questions addressed in this book

bear witness to practices in life as well as in death

[1] 266-268 Revillout

Cyropédie Islam 321 Des Grecs buveurs deBorn near Athens, Xenophon (426 354 BC) came from a very wealthy aristocratic family. He took part in the defense of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. In 401, he joined the Spartans fighting in Asia Minor alongside Cyrus, who was then seeking to overthrow his brother. After the failure of the Campaign of the Ten Thousand, in which Cyrus lost his life, he was elected general and, crossing Asia, led the Greeks to Trebizond, an exploit he recounts in the