Xenophon, Anabasis III
Xenophon's Anabasis Book 3 - The best highlights, the Power Highlights. For Power Listeners.
In this Episode:
-The power of public speaking
-What Socrates told Xenophon before he left
-Xenophon's inner monologue in GREEK
-Motivating your managers
-Finding resources you didn't know you had
-Lost cities of Mesopotamia
-Goat and donkey balloons
-The Original Kurds?
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Key Characters
Xenophon
Proxenus (+)
Cheirisophus
Mithradates
Some Hater from Boeotia
A Rhodian Balloon smith
The Carduchians
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Nimrud
Nineveh (Mosul)
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