Xenophon (English spelling)

Japanese: クセノフォン（英語表記）Xenophōn

[Born] Around 430 BC, Athens
Died around 355 BCE. A Greek soldier and historian from Corinth. A disciple of Socrates. He joined the Greek mercenary army in the Persian civil war, and when the army lost its commander, he was chosen as the leader and led a Greek army of 10,000 men to retreat from the desert near Babylon to the southern shore of the Black Sea. His achievements are detailed in his Anabasis. He later sided with Sparta and was exiled from his homeland, living in the countryside near Olympia, before being chased again and moving to Corinth. His other major works include Hellenica, Apologiā Sōkratūs, Apomnēmoneumata, Symposion, Oikonomikos, and Kȳrūpaideiā. His style is considered to be the model for classical Greek prose.

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Japanese:

[生]前430頃.アテネ
[没]前355頃.コリントス
ギリシアの軍人，歴史家。ソクラテスの弟子。ギリシア傭兵軍に加わってペルシアの内乱に参戦，指揮官を失ったときに，彼が指導者に選ばれて1万人のギリシア軍をバビロンに近い砂漠のなかから黒海南岸まで退却させた功績は，自著『アナバシス』 Anabasisに詳しい。その後スパルタに味方して祖国を追放され，オリンピアに近い田舎に住み，再び追われてコリントスに移住した。主作品はほかに，『ヘレニカ』 Hellēnika，『ソクラテスの弁明』 Apologiā Sōkratūs，『ソクラテスの思い出』 Apomnēmoneumata，『饗宴』 Symposion，『家政論』 Oikonomikos，『キュロスの教育』 Kȳrūpaideiāなど。その文体は古典期ギリシア散文の典範とされる。

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