Anabasis

Xenophon 430 BC – 356 BC – ancient Greek writer and historian, student and friend of Socrates, general and political figure. Anabasis is the most famous of the historical-biographical works of the Athenian Xenophon, in which he described the expedition of the Greek army to the Near Asia to Babylon in 401 BC and its subsequent retreat to ancient Greek Byzantium. For future generations, this expedition, thanks to Xenophon's account, turned from a failure into one of the greatest adventures in human history, and the work itself had a huge influence on Hellenistic and Roman prose.