The sources of Anabasis

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

book 1 4 sources

Ctesias' account of the King's wound and casualties · Favourable sacrificial victims and omens · Orontas' letter to the King · Silanus' sacrificial prediction

book 2 6 sources

Clearchus' sacrificial omens · King's pledge of pardon to Ariaeus' followers · Oath alliance between Greek officers and Ariaeus · Safe-conduct pledges with Tissaphernes · Tolmides' camp proclamation · Truce terms of the King and the Greeks

book 3 8 sources

Apollo's oracle at Delphi · Ariaeus' mutual pledges with the Greeks · Athenian vow to Artemis · Proxenus' letter · decree against negotiations with the enemy · omen from Zeus the Saviour · treaty against burning the King's territory · truce and oaths with the Persians

book 5 4 sources

Apollo's oracle · Artemis tablet inscription · Saying about the ass and wantonness · Saying about the north wind and voyaging to Greece

book 6 6 sources

Agasias' oath by the gods and goddesses · Army resolution on public property · Cleander's sacrifices for the journey · Favourable sacrificial and bird omens before the attack · Oracle at Delphi · Watchword invoking Zeus Saviour and Heracles Leader

book 7 4 sources

Anaxibius' letter to the Perinthians · Anaxibius' proclamation about enslaving soldiers found in Byzantium · Anaxibius' proclamation ordering the troops out of Byzantium · Oracle of Zeus the King

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the book that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 neutral 2 citations

   ch. 10 · ch. 11

   Named historian cited for a specific reported fact.

   The city of Cotyora is said by Xenophon to have belonged to the people of Sinope.

2. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

   oration 88 3 passages anchored here

   The Anabasis is named explicitly and treated as an authoritative, comprehensive model text through sustained discussion.

   For inasmuch, I think, as he mingled the discourses with the actions, having neither received them by hearsay nor imitated them, but himself acting and speaking at the same time, he made them most plausible in all his works, and in this one most of all, which I happened to mention.