Born in Athens about 430 B.C.; died after 357; celebrated as
historian and essayist, being a disciple of Socrates; joined
the expedition of Cyrus the Younger in 401, and after the
battle of Cunaxa became the chief leader of ten thousand
Greeks in their march to the Black Sea, the story being
chronicled in his famous "Anabasis"; fought on the Spartan
side in the battle of Coronea; banished from Athens, he
settled at Scillus in Eleia; spent his last years in
Corinth; among his writings besides the "Anabasis" are the
"Hellenica," "Cycropædia," "Memorabilia of Socrates," and
essays on hunting and horsemanship.
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