Xenophon

Xenophon was a Greek historian and a disciple of Socrates. He lived from 427 to 355 BC.

Xenophon was the primary historian of the last days of Greece's freedom. His Memorabilia depicts Socrates as a teacher of virtue who balanced reason and faith in order to attain the truth. He wrote a detailed account Hellenica which picked up where Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War left off.

Xenophon's most famous work is the "Anabasis" or "Upland March", which describes the march of the 10,000 Greek mercenaries through Anatolia to get back to Greece. It is read as a basic text in ancient Greek.