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The 25 pages that link to Xenophon, each with the reason it gives.

• PlatoRelated: His portrait of Socrates offers a valuable comparison with Plato’s literary portrayal.

• SocratesRelated: His accounts offer a distinct portrait alongside Plato’s dialogues.

• Cyrus the GreatRelated: His portrait shaped later ideas of Cyrus as an exemplary ruler.

• Socratic methodRelated: His accounts offer a distinct portrait of Socrates alongside Plato’s philosophical dialogues.

• Behistun InscriptionRelated: His account of Cyrus’s route helped later travelers associate the cliff monument with Cyrus.

• Ancient Greek historiographyRelated: His Hellenica continues the narrative of Greek affairs after Thucydides' account breaks off.

• DressageRelated: His advice on calm, responsive training is an early documented ancestor of dressage principles.

• MedesRelated: His work helped shape later Greek traditions about Median and Persian relations.

• ArrianRelated: Arrian modeled his Alexander history on Xenophon’s Anabasis and adopted Xenophon’s name as a literary tribute.

• Artaxerxes IIRelated: His account is a major surviving source for the revolt and retreat.

• AutarkyRelated: His writings on household management helped shape the Greek vocabulary and tradition of economic self-sufficiency.

• Battle of LeuctraRelated: His Hellenica provides the principal surviving narrative of the battle.

• Trial of SocratesRelated: His writings preserve an alternative portrayal of the prosecution and its motives.

• Agesilaus IIRelated: His histories preserve a detailed, favorable account of Agesilaus’s leadership.

• Cyrus the YoungerRelated: His participation made him the principal surviving narrator of Cyrus’s campaign.

• Thirty TyrantsRelated: His Hellenica preserves a major narrative of the regime’s final conflict.

• Classical dressageRelated: His advice on patience and willing movement is an early source for classical training principles.

• EpaminondasRelated: Xenophon’s account preserves a contemporary, though often Sparta-sympathetic, perspective on Epaminondas’ era.

• Achaemenid royal roadRelated: His account offers a Greek perspective on travel through imperial territories.

• Battle of CunaxaRelated: He joined Cyrus’s expedition and later recorded the retreat that followed Cunaxa.

• CyropaediaRelated: He presents Cyrus’s life as a vehicle for examining leadership and rule.

• Battle of ArginusaeRelated: His account is a principal narrative source for the battle and the generals' trial.

• GordyeneRelated: His account of the Carduchian mountains is an early source for the area’s peoples and terrain.

• TomyrisRelated: His account gives Cyrus a different death, complicating Herodotus’s story.