Anabasis is a unique first-hand, humble, and self-reflective account of military leader's experience in antiquity. Xenophon's Anabasis recounts his adventures with the Ten Thousand while in the service of Cyrus the Younger, Cyrus's failed campaign to claim the Persian throne from Artaxerxes II of Persia, and the return of Greek mercenaries after Cyrus's death in the Battle of Cunaxa. Xenophon established precedents for many logistical operations, and was among the first to describe flanking maneuvers and feints. As the military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge wrote, 'the centuries since have devised nothing to surpass the genius of this warrior'. At the age of 30, Xenophon was elected commander of one of the biggest Greek mercenary armies of the Achaemenid Empire, the Ten Thousand, that marched on and came close to capturing Babylon in 401 BC. 430 – 355/354 BC ) was an Athenian military leader, philosopher, and historian. Xenophon of Athens ( / ˈ z ɛ n ə f ən, - f ɒ n/ Ancient Greek: Ξενοφῶν c.

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