Before you are the works of Xenophon. A writer, philosopher and historian, who achieved almost complete perfection in all the genres in which he worked... Before you is an absolute classic of ancient Hellenic thought. A classic of the era when history, philosophy and literature were still forming into a single, indivisible whole, naturally, easily and wisely united in the works of Xenophon - one of the most devoted and talented students of the great Socrates... This is “Anabasis”. The history of the Greco-Persian wars, seen , as they say, “as she is.” Completely objective, even slightly “detached” in its cold and precise calm. However, “Anabasis” is by no means bare facts, but facts perceived through the multifaceted, complex prism of the author’s commentary...