Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Episode 21: The Life of Xenophon

Plutarch902 Season 2 Episode 21

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Step into the fascinating world of Xenophon, a soldier, historian, philosopher, and adventurer from ancient Greece whose life reads like an epic tale. This podcast unpacks the extraordinary journey of Xenophon, a student of Socrates, a general in the Persian wilderness, and one of the earliest storytellers of history and leadership.

Discover his role in the infamous "March of the Ten Thousand," where Xenophon led a stranded Greek army through hostile territories back to safety, a journey immortalized in his classic work Anabasis.

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