Innocent victims or perjurers betrayed? The arrest of the generals in xenophon's anabasis

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 447-461

  Bassett, Sherylee R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 62949197328     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/52.2.447     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Xenophon's interpretation has been accepted by, among others, S. W. Hirsch, The Friendship of the Barbarians (Hanover and London, 1985), 25, 26, 28, 41
2. J. Roisman, 'Klearchos in Xenophon's Anabasis', Scripta Classica Israelica 8-9 (1985-8), 30-52, at 49
3. D. M. Lewis, Sparta and Persia (Leiden, 1977), 151-2
4. J. K. Anderson, Xenophon (London, 1974), 116. It is discussed by G. Cawkwell in R. Warner (trans.), Xenophon - The Persian Expedition (London, 1972), 24-6, but he does not appreciate the implications of the treaty between the Greeks and Persians
5. See, too, Isoc. Panegyr. 147
6. R. Descat, 'Marché et tribut: l'approvisionnement des Dix-Mille', in P. Briant (ed.), Dans les pas des Dix-Mille: Peuples et pays du Proche Orient vus par un Grec, Pallas 43 (1995), 99-107, at 104-5 emphasises that this was a truce and not a contract of employment between the Greeks and Tissaphernes
7. A Cyzicene is approximately equal to a daric: J. Roy, 'The mercenaries of Cyrus', Historia 16 (1967), 287-323, at 309-10
8. Persian faithlessness is noted by L. G. Mitchell, Greeks Bearing Gifts (Cambridge, 1997), 114
9. R. D. Barnett, 'Xenophon and the wall of media', JHS 83 (1963), 1-26, at 1, 26
10. Some authors note that Ctesias' information came from Clearchus, without considering that other sources may also have provided comments. See, for example, J. M. Bigwood, 'The ancient accounts of the battle of Cunaxa', AJP 104 (1983), 340-57, at 356
11. T. S. Brown, 'Menon of Thessaly', Historia 35 (1986), 387-404, at 393, mistakenly claims that Xenophon's last reference to Menon before the meeting in Tissaphernes' tent was on the day of the battle of Cunaxa
12. M. A. Dandamaev, A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire, trans. W. J. Vogelsang (Leiden, 1989), 270-3