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A look at leadership from a celebrated student of SocratesOne of Socrates' disciples in his youth, Xenophon fought as a mercenary in Persia, traveled widely, and later wrote a broad range of works on history, politics, and philosophy. These six treatises offer his remarkable insights into the nature of leadership, the burdens of absolute power, the legendary King of Sparta, the skills of the hunter, and more.An updated section on further reading, new chronology, and mapsLanguage NotesXenophon was an Athenian country gentleman born about 430 BC. He may have helped to publish Thucydides’ History, and certainly wrote his own Hellenica as a continuation of it. By his own (probably reliable) account he was a fine officer and outstanding leader, but his admiration for Sparta and devotion to Socrates, among other causes, led to his banishment. He was given an estate at Scillus and settled down to enjoy the life of a landed aristocrat, and it was during this period that he began to write histories, biographies, memoirs and specialist treatises. The defeat of Sparta in 371 forced him to move to Corinth where he probably lived for the rest of his life.Robin Waterfield is a graduate of Manche

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Author

Xenophon; Robin H. Waterfield; Paul Cartledge

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140446821

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Philosophy

Rating

3.5 / 5 (46 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13