Title: The thrill is in the translation
Product review: This is one of my favorite Classical texts--a thrilling "true" story of Xenophon and the 10,000's roundabout retreat out of what is now Iraq and Turkey from an angry Persian army. However, kudos to Rex Warner's translation which makes it a thrilling narrative that will hold a Grecophile on the edge of their seat better than, say, a lot of other academic translations of Classical authors. The hardest thing to get used to at first is Xenophon referring to himself in the 3rd person. This passes; however, I wonder why some bold translator has never just gone ahead and translated Xenophon in the 1st person. What difference could it possibly make?
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