John W. I. Lee "A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon's Anabasis"
Cambridge University Press | 2008-01-28 | ISBN: 0521870682 | 336 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
Professor Lee provides a social and cultural history of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis. While they have often been portrayed as a single abstract political community, this book reveals that life in the army was mostly shaped by a set of smaller social communities: the formal unit organisation of the lochos ('company'), and the informal comradeship of the suskenia ('mess group')…