Just Arrived: The Landmark “Xenophon’s Hellenika”

I really love history, both historical non fiction as well as the fiction, but there is nothing more satisfying than reading primary sources, i.e. the material that was written by the people of the actual time. (I mean, how cool is that?)

Of course, for that to happen, first you have to have a literary society—both to write the words then, and read them again now. I’m fairly sure that most of 5th Century BC Greek society (yes, even the male part) was non literate, but fortunately the elite wer...