Xenophon and his Times
Born in a period of discord and confusion, the Athenian historian looked forward to an age when the whole Greek world would be united under a single powerful leader.
The last three decades of the fifth century BC saw the bitterest and most prolonged struggle ever waged between Greek cities, the Peloponnesian War, which had been provoked by the ambition of the Athenians, under their great imperialist leader Pericles, to dominate the Greek world.
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