Xenophon

4 books on BookJumpr, mentioned 9 times in other books.

Books by Xenophon

• The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates (c. 371 BC): mentioned in 1 book
• Cyropaedia: mentioned in 4 books
• Anabasis: mentioned in 3 books
• The Education of Cyrus (Cyropaedia): mentioned in 1 book

Quotes from Xenophon's books, and about them

• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin on The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates: “soon after I procur'd Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, wherein there are many instances of the same method.”
• The Cloister and the Hearth on Cyropaedia: “in the library of the Vatican, and had set Poggio to translate Diodorus Siculus and Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Laurentius Valla to translate Herodotus and Thucydides, Theodore Gaza, Theophrastus; George of Trebizond, Eusebius, and certain treatises of Plato, etc.”
• The Nature of Alexander on Cyropaedia: “The most picturesque subplot of Xenophon's Cyropaedia is the story of Cyrus and the Lady of Susa”
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on Cyropaedia: “Xenophon, in the preface to the Cyropaedia, gives a clear and magnificent idea of the extent of the empire of Cyrus.”
• The Anatomy of Melancholy on Cyropaedia: “5656. Cyropaedia. cum Pantheae forman evexisset Araspus, tanto magis, inquit Cyrus abstinere oportet, quanto pulchrior est.”
• Prester John on Anabasis: “Xenophon’s Ten Thousand did not hail the sea more gladly”
• Why Read the Classics on Anabasis: “Essay 'Xenophon's Anabasis' (primary subject)”
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on Anabasis: “The fact is confirmed by a soldier and a philosopher, who had experienced the intense cold of Thrace. See Xenophon, Anabasis, l. vii. p. 560, edit. Hutchinson.”
• Fire from Heaven on The Education of Cyrus (Cyropaedia): “They were reading Xenophon's The Upbringing of Kyros, which, next to Homer, was just then Alexander's favourite book.”

Authors who mention Xenophon

• Edward Gibbon (2): The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire mentions Cyropaedia, Anabasis
• Mary Renault (2): The Nature of Alexander mentions Cyropaedia; Fire from Heaven mentions The Education of Cyrus (Cyropaedia)
• Benjamin Franklin (1): The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin mentions The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
• Charles Reade (1): The Cloister and the Hearth mentions Cyropaedia
• Italo Calvino (1): Why Read the Classics mentions Anabasis
• John Buchan (1): Prester John mentions Anabasis
• Robert Burton (1): The Anatomy of Melancholy mentions Cyropaedia