Auteur(s) : Graham WYLIE (Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australie)
Titre : Cunaxa and Xenophon
Revue : L’Antiquité Classique
Volume : 61
Date : 1992
Pages : 119-134

Abstract :
The battle of Cunaxa (401 B.C.), described by Xenophon in the Anabasis, is the only one described by him of which he is known to have been an eyewitness. It is of interest also as an encounter between armies relying on totally different tactics – the Medes and Persians on cavalry attack and the Greeks on close combat of heavy infantry. A reconstruction of the battle is presented, based on critical examination of the accounts of Xenophon and others.