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A review by chrisdech
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon, Xenophon
3.0
Honestly, I'm not really sure what to say about this one.
Xenophon occupies this strange place in the historians of Ancient Greece wherein he is not a storyteller like Herodotus nor is he a historian like that of Thucydides. What he does is entirely unique, I think, but it's just not interesting enough. In a sense, it's like the child of the Histories and the History of the Peloponnesian War, and thereby a weaker form of both.
And it just kinda feels same-y throughout, honestly. But the translation by Warner is on point, and I think captures Xenophon's style in Greek quite nicely.
Xenophon occupies this strange place in the historians of Ancient Greece wherein he is not a storyteller like Herodotus nor is he a historian like that of Thucydides. What he does is entirely unique, I think, but it's just not interesting enough. In a sense, it's like the child of the Histories and the History of the Peloponnesian War, and thereby a weaker form of both.
And it just kinda feels same-y throughout, honestly. But the translation by Warner is on point, and I think captures Xenophon's style in Greek quite nicely.