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Robin Waterfield Reflects on Xenophon’s Anabasis in Persia, and Other Greco-Persian Conflicts

The Anabasis is Xenophon’s remarkable eyewitness account of the Greek mercenary army hired by Cyrus the Younger. Cyrus was challenging his brother Artaxerxes for the throne of Persia. Although the Ten Thousand Greek hoplites won the battle militarily, this win was wasted when a spear ran through their patron Cyrus, killing him in battle. Stranded behind enemy lines, and with many of their generals murdered by the treacherous Persians at a banquet, the Greek army of Ten Thousand elected Xenophon as the main general to lead them on their march for many miles and many months through enemy territory before they reached the Greek colonies on the shores of the Black Sea. The modern historian and translator Robin Waterfield has many interesting insights on this adventure story and the Greco-Persian conflicts that preceded it. For more interesting videos, please click to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:    / @reflectionsmph   Shortcut:    / @reflectionsmph   Script for this video: https://www.slideshare.net/BruceStrom... © Copyright 2023 This blog includes footnotes and Amazon book links: https://seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/th... We also reflect on: • Greek colonies on the Black Sea. • Alternate explanation of the Greek victory in the Battle of Marathon in the Greco-Persian Wars. • Greek naval victory at Battle of Salamis, and the Spartan defeat at the Pass of Thermopylae. • How the Spartan general Pausanias led to the formation of the Delian League, and the Athenian leader Pericles. • How the Sicilian Expedition ended the Peace of Nicias, and the role of Alcibiades, the Spartan General Lysander, and the Persian satraps Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus in the Peloponnesian Wars and afterwards. • Character study of general Clearchus, who led the Greeks in the Battle of Cunaxa. • How the Persian court intrigues with Queen Parysatis affected the Peloponnesian Wars and Xenophon’s Anabasis. • How King Darius appointed Cyrus to administer provinces in Ionia. • How Cyrus provided funds to help Lysander and the Spartans win the Peloponnesian Wars. • How Cyrus and the Greeks fought King Artaxerxes II near the Euphrates River, near Babylon at the Battle of Cunaxa. • Similarities between Cyrus the Younger and Cyrus the Great in Cyropaedia. • How Tissaphernes double-crossed the Greeks, murdering general Clearchus. • When the Greeks reached the Black Sea, they yelled, ‘Thalatta! Thalatta! The sea! The sea!” • How this adventure would encourage Alexander the Great to conquer Persia several decades later. Please support our efforts, be a patron, at:   / seekingvirtueandwisdom   Patrons can participate in online Zoom discussions of draft presentations we prepare for future YouTube videos. As Socrates teaches us, the examined life is a life worth living. We would be fools if we did not desire to learn from our multitude of friends whose words live in the works of the classics that have survived from past centuries and millennia. The Stoic and moral philosophers of Greece and Rome saw philosophy as an evangelical enterprise, seeking to spread the joy of living a godly life for its own sake. Our projects include: Studying the teachings of the ancient and modern stoic and moral philosophers on how to better lead a godly life. Studying ancient and modern history to learn moral lessons and learn how we can successfully live a life of faith in trying times, including civil rights and social gospel history. Studying issues of morality in the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Jewish traditions. Everyone should join and participate in their local church. However, my internet persona is purposefully obscure so that I can be respectful of all genuine Judeo-Christian traditions, I do not wish to be disrespectfully polemical. This is original content based on research by Bruce Strom and his blogs. Images in the Public Domain, many from Wikipedia, some from the National Archives, are selected to provide illustration. When images of the actual topic or event are not available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration. All events are portrayed in historical context and for educational purposes. No images or content are primarily intended to shock and disgust. The ancient world was a warrior culture out of necessity, to learn from the distant past we should not only judge them from our modern perspective but also from their own ancient perspective on their own terms.