DOC Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New; Complete; Uncensored Version by Anatoli Kuznetsov in History

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From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides and The Landmark Herodotus; here is a new edition of Xenophon’s Hellenika; the primary source for the events of the final seven years and aftermath of the Peloponnesian War. Hellenika covers the years between 411 and 362 B.C.E.; a particularly dramatic period during which the alliances among Athens; Sparta; Thebes; and Persia were in constant flux. Together with the volumes of Herodotus and Thucydides; it completes an ancient narrative of the military and political history of classical Greece. Xenophon was an Athenian who participated in the expedition of Cyrus the Younger against Cyrus’ brother; the Perisan King Artaxerces II. Later Xenophon joined the Spartan army and hence was exiled from Athens. In addition to the Hellenika; a number of his essays have survived; including one on his memories of his teacher; Socrates.Beautifully illustrated; heavily annotated; and filled with detailed; clear maps; this edition gives us a new; authoritative; and completely accessible translation by John Marincola; an comprehensive introduction by David Thomas; sixteen appendices written by leading classics scholars; and an extensive timeline/chronology to clarify this otherwise confusing period. Unlike any other edition of the Hellenika; it also includes the relevant texts of Diodorus Siculus and the Oxyrhynchus Historian; with explanatory footnotes and a table that correlates passages of the three works; which is perhaps crucial to an assessment of Xenophon’s reliability and quality as a historian. Like the two Landmark editions that precede it; The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika is the most readable and comprehensive edition available of an essential history.