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Xenophon

430 BC - 354 BC

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Xenophon of Athens (; Ancient Greek: Ξενοφῶν; c. 430 – probably 355 or 354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian. At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been part of Cyrus the Younger's attempt to seize control of the Achaemenid Empire. As the military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge wrote, "the centuries since have devised nothing to surpass the genius of this warrior". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Xenophon has received more than 2,805,562 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Xenophon is the 5th most popular historian (down from 4th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Greece (down from 28th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Greek Historian.

Xenophon is most famous for writing the "Anabasis", which is an account of the Greek mercenaries' journey from Mesopotamia to the Black Sea.

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  • 12.14

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  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Xenophon ranks 5 out of 561. Before him are Herodotus, Josephus, Ibn Khaldun, and Thucydides. After him are Sima Qian, Livy, Polybius, Tacitus, Suetonius, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Diodorus Siculus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 430 BC, Xenophon ranks 1. After him are Dionysius I of Syracuse, Cynisca, Aeschines of Sphettus, and Philistus. Among people deceased in 354 BC, Xenophon ranks 1. After him are Dion of Syracuse, and Timotheus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Xenophon ranks 29 out of 1,024. Before him are Protagoras (-486), Thucydides (-460), Bayezid II (1447), Spartacus (-109), Phidias (-490), and Hayreddin Barbarossa (1478). After him are Demosthenes (-384), Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha (1493), Leonidas I (-540), Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1769), Ptolemy I Soter (-367), and Nurbanu Sultan (1525).

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Among HISTORIANS In Greece

Among historians born in Greece, Xenophon ranks 2. Before him are Thucydides (-460). After him are Polybius (-208), Quintus Curtius Rufus (41), Callisthenes (-360), Theopompus (-400), Afet İnan (1908), Michael Glykas (1125), Philochorus (-340), Krste Misirkov (1874), Marsyas of Pella (-400), and Helene Ahrweiler (1926).

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