The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika - Robert B. Strassler

Ancient history readers are in for a joyful season this year with the release of Robert Strassler’s latest installment of sublimely accessible primary source work by Greece’s greatest historians. The Landmark Xenophon’s Hellenika (Pantheon, $40) takes up the story left off by Landmark’s Thucydides, as an exhausted Sparta is poised to finally defeat her archrival, Athens, after 27 years of war. Landmark’s Xenophon, packed to the gills with maps, essays, and helpful annotations, is the ideal guide through this fast-moving, labyrinthine world of backstabbing Greek states.