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64 - Xenophon, Anabasis VII

Cost of Glory

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Xenophon and the Spartans' Change in Leadership

As the soldiers have left, there's a changing of the leadership. The Spartans typically cycle through city governors and admirals every year. Xenophon gets a message as he's getting ready to leave from an exibius. He says, all right, you don't want to go to the kerosenece. Well, bring the army across to Asia. I have work for you now. So this is what's going through a lot of the men's heads.

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