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Wen-Amun

Wen-Amun: Egyptian diplomat, famous for his misadventurous voyage to Byblos in the early eleventh century BCE. A king of the Twentieth Dynasty…

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Xenophon on the surrender of Athens

Xenophon (c.430-c.354): Athenian soldier and historian, author of the Anabasis and Hellenica. He is one of the best-known and most widely read of all Greek authors.In 405, the Spartan admiral Lysander defeated the Athenians at Aigospotamoi. This meant the end…

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