Xenophon: Hellenika II.3.11 - IV.2.8

"It is the best of Xenophon, it is the worst of Xenophon. Readers looking for a carefully researched, well balanced, and reliable narrative of Greek affairs from 404 to 395 (BC) will be disappointed"- the author. This section of the Hellenika includes the trial of Theramenes and the conspiracy of Kinadon. The Spartan repression of Athens is set against the comparative freedom granted to the Greeks in the Asia Minor, throwing light on the repercussions of the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War on the Eastern Mediterranean. The selection ends with a parallel between the return at the head of an army of Agesilaos, king of Sparta, from Asia Minor and the invasion of Greece by Xerxes, king of Persia in 480 BC.