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Socrates is often said to have exemplified it in the highest degree. Xenophon was a unique combination of the man of action and the man of letters who chose practicality over abstract, Map of Persia and the March of the Ten Thousand.

That Xenophon admires the Spartan system and the individuals it produces is evident from both the portrait of Agesilaus and the description of the Spartan political system developed by the legendary  Lycurgus (Constitution of the Lacedaimonians).

Socrates is often said by Xenophon to have exemplified it in the very highest degree. Xenophon was away on his Persian campaign during the trial and death of Socrates. Great Captains: A Course of Six Lectures on the Art of War. Except for the dialogues of Plato, they are the only surviving representatives of the genre of Socratic dialogue. "Poetry and Prose: Xenophanes of Colophon". They elected new leaders, including Xenophon himself. They’ll be happier, and work makes for virtue.

writings.) However, Xenophon quickly devised a plan: all goats, cows, sheep and donkeys were slaughtered and their bodies stuffed with hay, laid across the river and sewn up and covered with dirt so as not to be slippery. A case in point involves the ancestry of Cyrus. Xenophon eventually assumed leadership of this stranded and confused army, and led them to safety – as many as survived. Nothing is known of his wife beyond her name: Philesia. When at trial, he defends himself from the charge of impiety by noting his regular participation in all sacrifices and other public religious rituals.

[15], Soon after, Xenophon's men reached Trapezus on the coast of the Black Sea (Anabasis 4.8.22).

Xenophon, the son of Gryllus, a citizen of Athens, was of the borough of Erchia; and he was a man of great modesty, and as handsome as can be imagined. A certain egalitarianism: Although Xenophon was no feminist, he does present the idea that the wife who is a full partner in household management contributes as much to the welfare of the estate as does her husband (, Buzzetti, E., 2001, “The Rhetoric of Xenophon and the Treatment of Justice in the Memorabilia”, in. One rare reader who encountered Xenophon’s Socrates first was John Stuart Mill, who refers to it in the context of a description of Mill’s own father: My father’s moral convictions, wholly dissevered from religion, were very much of the character of those of the Greek philosophers; and were delivered with the force and decision which characterized all that came from him. God moves all things, but he is thought to be immobile, characterized by oneness (B23) and unicity, ethernity (B26) and a spiritual nature which is bodiless and isn't anthropomorfic (B14, B15, B16). [36], Xenophanes is considered by some to be a precursor to Parmenides and Spinoza. Socrates enjoined piety and respect for divination, which should be consulted before every momentous life-choice. However, this treatise makes evident that anti-democratic sentiments were extant in Athens in the late 5th century BC and were only increased after its shortcomings were exploited and made apparent during the Peloponnesian War. Winter by now arrived as the Greeks marched through Armenia "absolutely unprovided with clothing suitable for such weather",[14] inflicting more casualties than they suffered during a skillful ambush of a local satrap's force and the flanking of another force in this period.