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  <title><![CDATA[The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>This record of one of the most famous marches in history contains an account of the day-to-day life of ordinary men and soldiers and demonstrates how Greek theories of government and morality worked out in practice.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1949</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Xenophon]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 31 03:19:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Xenophon has become a bit of a fascination of mine at the moment. I’ve started reading his Socratic Conversations – which I’ll review when I finish, but am finding remarkable – and then I found this as a talking book under the title The March of the Ten Thousand.  I’ve just finished listen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28851456">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Sep 18 14:52:39 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished Xenophon’s, <u>The Persian Expedition</u>.  The work had been characterized to me in two ways:  first, it was described as having been written in “easy” Greek, often used by British schoolboys as their primer when learning the Greek language, and whereas I did not read it in its original l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29006047">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Persian Expedition was great for telling the story of 10,000 Greek warriors who decided to take the sensible path of risk instead of surrender to the Persians.  The Expedition begins as the Greeks fight in a losing battle (because Cyrus was killed, not because the battle was otherwise lost) agai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72118241">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23942555">
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 07 13:27:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 07 13:27:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An adventure tale from the world of Ancient Greece.  Its a well told war yarn, and the pages turn themselves... <br/><br/>Xenophon writes the story in the third person despite having played a key role in the events of the story.  This might be a convention of the day (I have no idea), but the narr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23942555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39107248">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 02 08:44:45 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 17 08:29:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so incredible because it is a first-hand account of Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who commanded a mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. He and his men were then betrayed by their Persian employers and  forced to ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39107248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53180757">
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  <date_added>Sat Apr 18 19:31:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent handbook on how to be an upstanding aristocratic general, should you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of Persia with ten thousand of your friends, needing to march out. If we try as hard as we call all our lives, we'll still never be as cool as ten thousand ancient Greek mercenari...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53180757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26987431">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 08 14:02:04 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried getting into this, and I just could not. It sounded interesting when I picked it up at my library: the story of a group of Greek mercenaries fighting for Cyrus as he tries to depose his king. Cyrus loses, and the Greeks are stranded in enemy territory. I think it could even make a decent mov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26987431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46533644">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as boring as I thought it would be, but still not exciting. If you like accounts of ancient Greeks with funny names fighting each other it could be the read for you!]]></body>
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    <review id="50804942">
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are looking to get a real feel for the Persian Empire and what Ancient warfare was like, this is a must read.]]></body>
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    <review id="22668546">
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    <body><![CDATA[Xenophone said many lies in this book about persian and greek military.If persian was so waste that greek military beat them in iran then how did they fire athen?<br/>Really anabasis was the iranian fight between two brothers(Artakhshir and Kourosh two second Dariuosh shah of Hakhamaneshi's sons)<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22668546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60352598">
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thousands of years later and this story still stands the test of time.]]></body>
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    <review id="34948740">
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic of perseverance and gritty determination, both for the featured Greek army and the reader.  Shares with the Old Testament and Julius Caesar's writings the endearing characteristic of absurd army statistics, where an army of 10,000 good guys will defeat hundreds of thousands of barbarians. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34948740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23975687">
    <user id="83144">
    <name><![CDATA[El]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Xenophon left Athens and joined an army of ten thousand Greeks led by Cyrus against the Persian king, Artaxerxes, brother of Cyrus.  They succeed, but Cyrus is killed.  Upon his death it is up to Xenophon to return the warriors from Babylon to Athens.  These are his stories, both of the battles and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23975687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77899928">
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 16 09:37:34 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great!]]></body>
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    <review id="30738766">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow...Xenophon was apparently single-handedly to thank for the Greeks making their way out of Persia.  Any speech by anyone else in the book is about a paragraph long...while he writes himself responding in 10 minute monologues. It reads more like what someone wishes they could have said the day *af...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30738766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2674429">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The most fascinating part is the religiosity of Xenophon and his men.  A dead religion ruled every moment, every action of every day for these men.  No decision performed and no mission embarked was upon without consulting the entrails or awaiting divine signage.  Better than Dawkins or Hitchens as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2674429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25576413">
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    <body><![CDATA[An enduring classic of free people joining together to solve a great problem -- in this case how to escape ancient Mesopotamia!  Xenophon is a Spartan sympathizer who came of age after Athens defeat in the Pelopponesian War, yet his leadership was very Athenian.  Every major strategic decision, the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25576413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Xenophon again, this time with his account of the non-education of Cyrus. The Greeks didn't do too well in other words. The Education of Cyrus is another work by Xenophon. It's another weak pun just above in case anyone wondered.<br/><br/>This is largely autobiographical as Xenophon himself was a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24597400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The original &quot;On the Road&quot;...this book explains why you never get involved in a land war in Asia.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this, not as a history book, but as a Greek translation project.  What's interesting is that the story shows the strength of the Democratic way of operating.  No other army would have remained in force after their leaders were assassinated.  And yet the Greeks managed to do it.  ]]></body>
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