ISBN: 9781907973000

Middlesex, England: Penguin Classics, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Paperback Book in Very Good Condition. Translated by Rex Warner. Multicolor yellow-gold-green wra… More...

Middlesex, England: Penguin Classics, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Paperback Book in Very Good Condition. Translated by Rex Warner. Multicolor yellow-gold-green wraps clean and unmarked, showing a Persian relief depicting archers from the Palace of Darius I, in the Louvre, Paris. Light wear to spine head and heel. Rear cover has light wear around all edges. Glued binding tight, solid and square. Former owner name on title page. Pages evenly toned-light to moderate- very clean, no markings of any kind. To set the scene of the Persian Expeditioni in the beginning of the 4th century B. C., we find Xenophon living in Athens, an Athenian in a city that was seen as the centre of Greek culture, and had lately been the greatest imperial power in the Mediterranean, but totally defeated in war by Sparta and her allies. Sparta is supreme now. Xenophon wants to help Cyrus, the pretender to the Persian throne, over throw his brother and take the Persian throne. It was Alexander however who took a Greek force into the field agaist the great Persian Empire. Xenophon joined a band of Greek mercenaries into the fray. "The Persian Expedition tells of the march into Persia, of their total defeat at the battle of Cunaxa, and the long and arduous return to Greece. This is a record of remarkable military skill and initiative and also a story of thr day-to-day life of the ordinary man. 309 pages, including a Glossary of Names. 4.4 x 7 inches. 1965, Penguin Classics, Middlesex, England., Penguin Classics, 1965, 3, Very Good. Off the coast of Istanbul, in the Marmara Sea, lie the Princes Islands, an archipelago of unusual natural beauty, which has long been considered the maritime suburb of the imperial capital on the Bosporus and effectively shaped by its manifold history. The poet Joachim Sartorius draws a loving portrait of the landscape and the light, the political observer Sartorius describes the microcosm, which was always a reflection of Istanbul-Constantinople-Byzantium, while the novelist Sartorius introduces us to the characters, who inhabit this time capsule.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés., 3<