…Weibull 13. On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-tung 14. The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides 15. The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus 16. The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon 17. Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1) by Plutarch 18. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch 19.…
…no guarantee that it will continue to do so. The idea that those who take and keep power by whatever means have a moral right to it is not new. I recently finished reading Xenophon's Anabasis (aka The Persian Expedition), and this philosophy seeps through just about every page as the Greek army lays waste to anyone not deemed of benefit to them, even fellow Greeks. Xenophon was a close friend of Socrates, remember. Xenophon…
……威布尔 13. 毛泽东的《论游击战》 14. 修昔底德的《伯罗奔尼撒战争史：修订版》（企鹅经典） 15. 希罗多德的《历史》（企鹅经典） 16. 色诺芬的《波斯远征记》（企鹅经典） 17. 普鲁塔克的《希腊罗马名人传》（现代图书馆丛书，第 1 卷） 18. 普鲁塔克的《名人传》第 2 卷（现代图书馆经典） 19.……
…Weibull 13. On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-tung 14. The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Thucydides 15. The Histories (Penguin Classics) by Herodotus 16. The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon 17. Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1) by Plutarch 18. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch 19.…
色诺芬的《波斯远征记》（Persian Expedition）是我最喜欢的书之一。它既有流浪冒险小说的神韵，又透着一股极少有作家能企及的真诚。
Xenophon's "Persian Expedition" is one of my favorite books. It's picaresque yet sincere in a way that few writers achieve.
……谁也无法保证它会一直这样。那种认为“不择手段夺取并维持权力的人天然拥有道德合法性”的观点早就屡见不鲜了。我最近读完了色诺芬的《长征记》（又名《波斯远征记》），这种哲学理念几乎渗透在每一页里：希腊军队把任何他们认为没用的人都洗劫一空，甚至连希腊同胞也不放过。别忘了，色诺芬可是苏格拉底的挚友。色诺芬……
…no guarantee that it will continue to do so. The idea that those who take and keep power by whatever means have a moral right to it is not new. I recently finished reading Xenophon's Anabasis (aka The Persian Expedition), and this philosophy seeps through just about every page as the Greek army lays waste to anyone not deemed of benefit to them, even fellow Greeks. Xenophon was a close friend of Socrates, remember. Xenophon…