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Xenophon: The Persian ExpeditionPenguin Books In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army the Ten Thousand to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne. When the Greeks were then betrayed by their Persian employers, they were forced to march home through hundreds of miles of difficult terrain adrift in a hostile country and

and historical context

How did the Stoics think about religion

and noble poetry

and nephew of Pliny the Elder

Emily Frenkel's retelling is fresh and direct

But he also says that drinking to excess on occasion is okay—and he even tells us how to win drinking games

This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama

Oedipus at Colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king

became a close friend of Stephanides and his collaborator

noteworthy for its ambivalence in representing the perspectives of woman and slaves and its experiments with a secondary plot line

The painting captures a young man’s spirited personality and pursuits during a life which may have been short

said to have been born in Cos in or before 460 BC