Shane Brennan, Associate Professor of History and Classics at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh and author of Xenophon's Anabasis: A Socratic History, joins the show to talk about why the Anabasis remains an important part of the Western canon of military writing.

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• 01:30 Introduction

• 02:05 Dubai to Bangladesh

• 05:37 Xenophon’s start

• 09:25 Several levels of failure

• 12:37 “An exemplary Socratic student”

• 14:40 Fighting for the Persians

• 17:18 Cyrus the Younger

• 20:46 A leader emerges

• 29:41 “How was he so right?”

• 36:43 Matterhorn

• 38:33 Exile

• 42:01 An instruction on leadership

• 44:16 “There is always something there…”

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