Xenophon
A celebrated Athenian, son of Gryllus, famous as a general, philosopher, and historian. He joined Cyrus the Younger in an expedition against Artaxerxes, king of Persia, and after the decisive battle of Cunaxa, in which Cyrus was defeated and killed, the skill and bravery of Xenophon became conspicuous. He had to direct an army of ten thousand Greeks, who were now more than six hundred leagues from home, and in a country surrounded by an active enemy.
He rose superior to all difficulties till the celebrated Retreat of the Ten Thousand was see page 292, School of the Vestal Virgins. effected; the Greeks returning home after a march of two hundred and fifteen days.
Xenophon employed his pen in describing the expedition of Cyrus, in his work the Anabasis. He also wrote the Cyropaedia, Memorabilia, Hellenica, etc. He died at Corinth in his ninetieth year, about 360 years before the Christian era.