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Anabasis (/ ə ˈ n æ b ə s ɪ s /; Greek: Ἀνάβασις; an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. [2] It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand , an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II , in 401 BC.
- Xenophon
- 1875
Feb 2, 2024 · The film is, after all, a modern retelling of the age-old tale of brotherhood, survival and making a dangerous journey back home, drawing analogues with many of the themes and motifs of ancient Greek literature. At its root, The Warriors relates to the ancient Greek epic poem ‘Anabasis’ by Xenophon and mirrors the journey of the Ten Thousand.
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Anabasis is the story of an army of Greek mercenaries in the employ of Cyrus the Younger as he attempts to seize the Achaemenid throne (perhaps better known as the Persian Empire) from his elder brother, Artaxerxes II. It is the most famous work of Xenophon, who serves as not only the author but also a character, as he was a soldier in the mercenar...
The best thing about The Warriors as an adaptation is how loose it is. While it is far more prevalent in contemporary works with large, in-built audiences, too often adaptations hew too close to the source material lest they anger the existing fan base. However, many great adaptations take the structure and themes of a book or mythology and transfo...
In 2005, The Warriors got an updated release that Paramount labeled the ultimate director’s cut – though the deviations probably aren’t substantial enough for that label – which reinstated an opening narration that Hill had originally wanted Orson Welles to voice. Unfortunately, Paramount didn’t want to cut that check, so in the re-release, Hill vo...
The John Wick series has had a tie to The Warriors since the first film when it featured the antagonist of the earlier movie, David Patrick Kelly (with whom director Chad Stahelski had previously worked when he was a stuntperson on The Crow), as the head of a cleanup crew for dead bodies. John Wick: Chapter 4 made the connection far more overt in i...
Anabasis Kyrou (The Expedition of Cyrus) Anabasis, prose narrative, now in seven books, by Xenophon, of the story of the Greek mercenary soldiers who fought for Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to seize the Persian throne from his brother, Artaxerxes II. It contains a famous account of the mercenaries’ long trek (“the march of the 10,000 ...
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Xenophon's Anabasis is a true story of remarkable adventures. Hellenica, a history of Greek affairs from 411 to 362, begins as a continuation of Thucydides' account. There are four works on Socrates (collected in Volume IV of the Loeb Xenophon edition). In Memorabilia Xenophon adds to Plato's picture of Socrates from a different viewpoint.
Jan 9, 2022 · Despite the movie being lambasted upon its release, it has since become a beloved cult classic. In a strange story within a story, The Warriors is based on the 1965 book of the same name by Sol Yurick, and the book is actually based on an ancient Greek story called Anabasis.
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Jun 7, 2016 · Anabasis is a classic story of an army’s retreat from disaster, told by the man who was thrust into the role of saving it. Anabasis means “march inland from the coast,” which is a paradoxical title for a book that is mostly about a march to the coast from inland. But the author, Xenophon, an Athenian, had a taste for irony, borrowed from ...
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