Hellenica

Opening of the book

HELLENICA

By Xenophon

Translation by H. G. Dakyns

Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was

a

pupil of Socrates. He marched with the

Spartans,

and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him

land

and property in Scillus, where he lived for

many

years before having to move once more, to

settle

in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.

The Hellenica is his chronicle of the history

of

the Hellenes from 411 to 359 B.C., starting as

a

continuation of Thucydides, and becoming his

own

brand of work from Book III onwards.

PREPARER'S NOTE

This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though there

is doubt about some of these) is:

Work

Number

of

books

The Anabasis

7

The Hellenica

7

The Cyropaedia

8

The Memorabilia

4

The Symposium

1

The Economist

1

On Horsemanship

1

The Sportsman

1

The Cavalry General

1

The Apology

1

On Revenues

1

The Hiero

1

The Agesilaus

1

The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians

2

Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical marks have been lost.

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