
Anabasis; Or, The March Up-Country (Xenophon)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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What Is the Story of the Great War?
The raw material of most modern businesses is not free men, but atomized serfs from top to bottom. And anabasis has nothing to say about how to lead and motivate slaves in a free country. In response to the greeks demands, cyrus dissembled, but promised to pay the men more. The men accepted this. They were there for money, not principal. Throughout the story, promises of money were the most effective inducement to action. A the soldiers responded to more abstract appeals to their pride as freemen and greeks.
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