Xenophon\'s last 6,000

[Idomeneas]

On further checking the introduction to my edition of the Anabasis (eds. M.W. Mather and J.W. Hewitt, 1962 edition) there are two other historians of the expedition. The Sophaenetus I mentioned above, the general, and a certain Themistogenes, who according to another work of Xenophon, was the "official" historian.

Neither of these works have survived. Most likely because Xenophon's was the best.

Kevin

Themistogenes is basically Xenophon as far as i read. Being modest he used a fake name so others wont accuse him for praising himself. I cant recall now if Sophainetos was the other historian. There are rumours of another record of anabasis by another general but it is said to not be that accurate as it presented its writer and those who favoured him in a ''extra positive'' way . the ancients never accepted it as a work of equal quality as the one of Xenophon. It is said though that some lines in the beginning of each chapter and the epilogue comes from that other work merged in the one of Xenophon by an ancient scholar.