CUNAXA

kyoonăkˈsə, ancient town of Babylonia, near the Euphrates River, NE of Ctesiphon. It was the scene of a battle (401 b.c.) between Cyrus the Younger and Artaxerxes II, described by Xenophon in the Anabasis.Clearchus, Spartan mercenary leader under Cyrus, chose to attack the Persian left wing (under Tissaphernes), which he completely routed and pursued. When he and his Ten Thousand returned, they found that Cyrus had fought hard in the center, had broken Artaxerxes' bodyguard, but in the moment of victory had been killed. Cyrus' army, demoralized, had broken up, and the Persians had taken the field. The retreat of the Ten Thousand northward is the most famous feature of the campaign.

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books on: Cunaxa  - 116 results

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Atlas of Classical History
Book by Richard J. A. Talbert; Routledge, 1985
Subjects: Classical Geography--Maps, Geography, Ancient--Maps, Historical Geography--Maps, History, Ancient
...taken by Cyrus rebel army from Sardis to Cunaxa, where it was defeated by Artaxerxes...remnants, marching separately, from Cunaxa to the R. Zab, where the Greek generals...There are two problematic sections. 1 Cunaxa to Opis. The Greeks marched north/ north...
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Xenophon and the History of His Times
Book by John Dillery; Routledge, 1995
...does occur after the death of Cyrus at Cunaxa. In the immediate aftermath of the battle...to whom Cyrus shouted his orders before Cunaxa, 1.8.12 , 24 so that his eventual...for each soldier, comes on the eve of Cunaxa as a final incentive. Certain individuals...
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The Origins of War: From the Stone Age to Alexander the Great
Book by Arther Ferrill; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Military Art And Science--History, Military History, Ancient
...consider the military significance of the Cunaxa campaign. Cyrus had failed, but the...198 The Greeks did learn first hand at Cunaxa the weakness of the Persian army against...roughly 1500 miles overland from Sardis to Cunaxa, moving twelve to fifteen miles a day...
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Jesus and the Greeks: Or, Early Christianity in the Tideway of Hellenism
Book by William Fairweather; T. & T. Clark, 1924
Subjects: Christianity, Hellenism, Philo--Of Alexandria
...younger Cyrus by foolhardiness perished at Cunaxa. Let them therefore, he urged, join...undisputed long before his victory at Cunaxa. 1 The suggestion that he should endeavour...adopt the view that Philips victory at Cunaxa would clear the way for his assumption...
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A History of Ancient Geography
Book by H. F. Tozer; Biblo and Tannen, 1971
Subjects: Geography, Ancient--History
...described, was a task of appalling difficulty. After the battle of Cunaxa on the banks of the Euphrates in 401 B.C., in which the younger...the Carduchi Kurdistan . The Centrites River of Sert . The March from Cunaxa to Armenia.
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journal articles on: Cunaxa  - 6 results

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On Torture and the Achaemenids
Journal article by Michael Kozuh; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 129, 2009
Subjects: Lincoln, Bruce--Criticism and interpretation, Persian Empire, 559-330 BC--Analysis, Torture--Analysis, Torture--History
...Artaxerxes II subjected a Persian soldier to the ordeal of the troughs for revealing how Cyrus the Younger died in the battle of Cunaxa. The second is the American treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The parallels between these two forms of torture...
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Xenophon's (The Education of Cyrus) and Ideal Leadership Lessons for Modern Public Administration
Journal article by Jennifer O'Flannery; Public Administration Quarterly, Vol. 27, 2003
Subjects: Historical analysis, Leadership, Leadership training, Persia, Philosophy, Public sector, Studies, Xenophon (431-352 BC)
...attempting to take control of Persia from his brother, King Antaxerxes II and was killed along with his generals in the battle of Cunaxa (Encarta, 2000). Xenophon was drawn to Persia to advise Cyrus the Youn-ger. Because of the failed attempt to challenge...
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The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand
Journal article by Paul Cartledge; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (Book)--Book reviews
...included here, but nine of the photographs printed are his, including one of the probable sites of the decisive Battle of Cunaxa not far from Nineveh. On the whole, the photos, like the book in general, are well reproduced, but the index is sadly something...
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Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age
Journal article by John Prevas; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age (Book)--Book reviews
...characterize much of popular culture in America today. There are some interesting ideas in this book, especially about the Battle of Cunaxa, where the Greek mercenaries easily routed the Persians. Robin Waterfield contends that the Greek victory over the left wing...
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About the Saxon Rebellion and the Massacre at Amesbury
Journal article by Helmut Nickel; Arthuriana, Vol. 16, 2006
Subjects: Epic literature, Folklore, Literary criticism
...a classical source for his treacherous massacre, we need not go as far back as to Xenophons Anabasis, where in BC 401, at Cunaxa, before the gates of Babylon, the Greek captains (two hundred and twenty-five, with one survivor to tell the tale) were...
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magazine articles on: Cunaxa  - 4 results

 
 
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Thalatta! Thalatta!
Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; New Criterion, Vol. 24, October 2005
Subjects: "The Sea! The Sea!": The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (Book), Books--Book reviews, The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (Book)--Book reviews
...ended up on the Euphrates at the plain of Cunaxa, not far from present-day Baghdad...into the much larger forces of the king. Cunaxa soon proved why these clumsy, heavily...after the Greeks were dry-gulched at Cunaxa. So the core of the work is really a...
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Anatolian Retreat: Robin Waterfield, Author of a New Book on the Greek Soldier Xenophon, Explains How He Came to Retrace the Steps of the Soldier's Famous Journey to the Black Sea
Magazine article by Robin Waterfield; History Today, Vol. 56, September 2006
Subjects: Anabasis (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Anabasis (Book)--Translations and translating, Historical works--Criticism and interpretation, Historical works--Translations and translating, Xenophon--Portrayals
...The attempt failed when Cyrus lost his life at the battle of Cunaxa (somewhere in the desert west of Baghdad), and the Greeks...probably modern Ar Raqqah) and followed the river south to Cunaxa. My journey was undertaken in the autumn of 2005: it was impossible...
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Why the West Has Won: Freedom Is the Ultimate Weapon
Magazine article by Victor Davis Hanson; The American Spectator, Vol. 34, November 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Democracy, Freedoms, Military history, War
...successful eastward march of more than 1,500 miles that scattered all opposition, the Greeks smashed the royal Persian line at Cunaxa, north of Babylon.The price for destroying an entire wing of the Persian army was a single Greek hoplite wounded by an arrow...
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Why the West Wins Wars
Magazine article by Keith Windschuttle; New Criterion, Vol. 20, April 2002
Subjects: Afghanistan--Relations with the United States, Hanson, Victor Davis--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Military history--Criticism, interpretation, etc., United States--Military aspects, War--Research
...consider the implications of another of Hansons points. The Iraqi army was obliterated not far from the ancient battlefields of Cunaxa and Gaugamela, where Western forces--Xenophons Ten Thousand in 401 B.C. and Alexander the Great in 331 B.C.--had...


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newspaper articles on: Cunaxa  - 1 result

 
 
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Derby Ko for Crocked Doc
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 6, 1996
...Martin Fetherston-Godley has successfully appealed to the Jockey Club against the demotion of first past the post Xenophon of Cunaxa on May 19 at Newbury. The local stewards ruled that there was interference between the three-year-old and the second...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cunaxa  - 8 results

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Cunaxa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CUNAXA kyoonak s , ancient town of Babylonia, near the Euphrates River, NE of Ctesiphon. It was the scene of a battle (401 b.c...
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Cyrus the Younger
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...bravery and proceeded to fight. Cyrus was killed in the battle of Cunaxa . The loss was followed by the heroic retreat of the Ten Thousand. The revolt of Cyrus and the battle of Cunaxa were the basis for Xenophon s celebrated prose history, Anabasis...
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Persia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II , which came to an end with the death of Cyrus in the battle of Cunaxa (401 b.c.). Cyrus defeat was recorded in Xenophon s Anabasis, and although the importance of Cyrus revolt may be exaggerated...
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Tissaphernes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...with Cyrus the Younger , he rebuilt his fortunes by siding with Artaxerxes II and helping him to defeat Cyrus in the battle of Cunaxa (401). He pursued the retreating Greek allies (the Ten Thousand) and treacherously murdered Clearchus and four other Greek...
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Xenophon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ten Thousand) that was in the service of Cyrus the Younger of Persia. These troops served Cyrus at the disastrous battle of Cunaxa (401 b.c.). When Cyrus was killed, the Ten Thousand were forced to flee or surrender to the Persians. They retreated...
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