Work
Hellenica
Ἑλληνικά
By Xenophon.
- Kind of writing
- History
- Dialect
- Attic
- Written
- 5th–4th c. BC
- Length
- 75,656 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 74% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
416 BC: an island asks for justice, and an empire answersThe Melian DialogueIn the summer of 416 BC an Athenian fleet of thirty-eight ships anchored off Melos, a small island that wanted no part in the war between Athens and Sparta.The people who fed Sparta, and how Sparta kept them downThe helots and the krypteiaSparta's citizens could spend their lives training for war because someone else grew their food.