Tag Archives: Xenophon

Sparta: The Warrior State?

Written by Meghan McKenna, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Sparta, home of Ancient Greece’s most brutal warriors, trained from their youths to become capable hoplites. It is an image that has become a staple of our thoughts when thinking about how Spartan society may have been. But is this the case or is this a force-fed

Written on August 21, 2020 at 6:13 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: Military History

Tags: Agoge, Ancient Greek Military History, Education, Herodotus, Lycurgus, Plutarch, Sparta, Spartan women, Spartans, Xenophon

The Birth of the Biography

By Ben Potter, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom What springs to mind when we think about literature of the Ancient World? Maybe it’s Homer’s Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector around Troy or Sophocles’ Oedipus stabbing out his polluted eyes. Perhaps it’s Plato’s Socrates holding forth or Herodotus’ Leonidas and his 300 Spartans. It even might

Written on July 5, 2019 at 12:38 pm, by Ben Potter

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Categories: History

Tags: Antony, Aristotle, Augustus, biography, Cleopatra, Funeral Oration, Hadrian, Herodotus, History, Homer, Josephus, Julius Caesar, Odyssey, pericles, Plutarch, Septimius Severus, Suetonius, Sulla and Sallust, Tacitus, Theopompus, Thucydides, Tiberius, Timaeus, Xenophon

Xenophon: A Biography of the Historian, Poet and Military Strategist

By Eldar Balta, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Xenophon’s Early life Not much is known of Xenophon from his early years, except that he was son of Gryllus, a wealthy citizen of Erchia, a suburb of Athens. He was born circa 430 BC, and not much is known of his life up to 401 BC. This

Written on December 15, 2018 at 2:56 am, by plato

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Categories: Historians

Tags: Agesilaus, Athens, Cyrus, democracy, Historian, Lysander, Persian army, Plato, socrates, Sparta, Tissaphernes, trial of socrates, Xenophon

3 Historians Who Changed the World

By Francesca Leaf Over the centuries, civilizations have endeavored to preserve a record of their existence for future generations. This effort has taken the form of compiling chronologies, building monuments, and creating art. The ancient Greeks took it a step further. They invented an entirely new literary genre, solely dedicated to recounting important events in

Written on February 13, 2015 at 11:34 pm, by plato

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Categories: Historians

Tags: Herodotus, Historians, Thucydides, Xenephon, Xenophon

Five Reasons Why Socrates Was A Terrible Husband

By. Van Bryan Socrates is often credited with the quote, “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher.” And we all (mostly men) get a good chuckle out of that. As a consequence of Socrates’ attitude towards his

Written on March 3, 2014 at 7:01 pm, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Philosophers

Tags: Apology, Phaedo, socrates, Xanthippe, Xenophon