Librivox is slowly increasing the number of classics on their site...so if you are interested in ancient books but your eyes can't take the strain of reading (or if you are like me you get bored reading, but can listen to them on your mp3 player while jogging or crocheting) then check them out.
Today's offering: Xenophon's Anabasis.
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Imagine this. You are a young writer who joined a mercenary army just out of curiosity, but after the mercs helped win the battle, their employer was killed, leaving all of you hundreds of miles from any friendly faces.
When your officers go to negotiate a surrender, they are killed and you are told: surrender or die, which in those days wasn't a really good choice since surrender usually meant a life of slavery working yourself to death in silver mines or quarries.
So what did the Greeks do?
They said "Up yours", voted new officers, and sent the bad guys the message: if you want our swords you can pry them from our cold dead hands...and then they started marching home.
One of these days, someone will make a great movie of it, or update the screenplay.
Calling Bruce Willis....calling Bruce Willis.
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