American Anabasis: Xenophon and the Idea of America from the Mexican War to Iraq - Hardcover

Rood, Fellow And Tutor In Classics Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159020476X ISBN 13: 9781590204764

Publisher: Overlook Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Marines? march up to Baghdad, Sherman's trail of destruction in Georgia, an army of Missouri volunteers trekking across the Great Plains to Mexico?this wide-ranging and imaginative book tells for the first time the story of how American armies from the sands of Iraq to the halls of the Montezuma have followed figuratively in the footsteps of the original Anabasis, the famous Greek march into the interior of Asia made by Xenophon and the Ten Thousand in 400 BC.
Starting with the Iraq War, Tim Rood turns back to the conquest of the American West and to the Civil War, showing how one of the most famous episodes in classical antiquity was first appropriated in the name of military expansion, and then used to express conflicting responses to the most controversial campaign of the Civil War. Allusions to Xenophon in speeches, newspaper reports, and military memoirs are throughout read against Xenophon's own story.

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Review

Praise for Tim rood's Previous Work:
In "The Sea! The Sea!" the British classical scholar Tim Rood has assembled a huge collection of ways Xenophon s words have, as he says, twisted and played in the modern imagination . . . triumphant. -- Peter Stothard, "The Wall Street Journal"
An unusual and fascinating book... delightfully compelling --"New York Sun"
...so enjoyable to read... takes an honourable place among studies of that perennially fascinating theme, the reinterpretation by the modern world of ancient Greece --Tom Holland, "Times Literary Supplement"

Praise for Tim rood's Previous Work:

?In "The Sea! The Sea!" the British classical scholar Tim Rood has assembled a huge collection of ways Xenophon's words have, as he says, ?twisted and played? in the modern imagination . . . triumphant.? -- Peter Stothard, "The Wall Street Journal"

?An unusual and fascinating book... delightfully compelling? --"New York Sun"

?...so enjoyable to read... takes an honourable place among studies of that perennially fascinating theme, the reinterpretation by the modern world of ancient Greece? --Tom Holland, "Times Literary Supplement"

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 159020476X
• ISBN 13: 9781590204764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292