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110 Xenophon and "The Ten Thousand"

The History of Ancient Greece

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Xenophon's Syropadia

Xenophon has often been linked to an Athanaeon Palatea, or a constitution of the Athenians. Also called the Old oligarch, it is a short political pamphlet breaking down the Athenian Constitution. Although it was once considered a minor work of Xenophon, the scholarly consensus is that he did not write it. One political treatise that can be genuinely attributed to Xenophon though is the Constitution of Sparta.

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