Xenophon

American  

[zen-uh-fuhn, -fon] / ˈzɛn ə fən, -ˌfɒn /

noun

1. 434?–355? b.c., Greek historian and essayist.

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Xenophon British  

/ ˈzɛnəfən /

noun

1. 431–?355 _bc , Greek general and historian; a disciple of Socrates. He accompanied Cyrus the Younger against Artaxerxes II and, after Cyrus' death at Cunaxa (401), he led his army of 10 000 Greek soldiers to the Black Sea, an expedition described in his Anabasis. His other works include Hellenica, a history of Greece, and the Memorabilia, Apology, and Symposium, which contain recollections of Socrates

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Other Word Forms

• Xenophontian
  adjective
• Xenophontine
  adjective

Example Sentences

Another contemporary of Socrates, the historian Xenophon, wrote an account of Socrates’s trial and death in his Memorabilia.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

“This has been a needless point of division in the community for more than 18 months now,” Nick Xenophon, a former senator who used to represent the state of South Australia, said in a statement.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2018

Their stories and countless others might have been lost had historians like Thucydides, Xenophon and Pausanias followed the imperative recognizable to athletes and journalists today: stick to sports.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2017

Instead, they show the grinning face of Nick Xenophon, an independent senator from Adelaide, the state capital, whose influence reaches far beyond his home state.

From Economist • Jun. 16, 2016

They are the descendants of the wild people of the mountains mentioned by Xenophon as the Karduchi, who so severely harassed the Greeks during their retreat.

From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.