His so-called Apology of Socrates is an unconvincing footnote to Plato's but later he compiled his extensive and valuable Memorabilia (Recollections of Socrates) the work that has given Xenophon, not himself a philosopher, considerable importance to all post-Socratic philosophers. In the subsequent pamphleteering, Xenophon wrote in Socrates' defense. Meanwhile, in 399, Socrates had been executed on trumped-up charges. Xenophon played a part in leading the defeated remnant back to Greece. When young he knew Socrates, whom he consulted before joining, in 401, the famous expedition to Persia narrated in his masterpiece, the Anabasis. Xenophon was an Athenian citizen, soldier, gentleman-farmer, historian, and author of many varied and often graceful prose works.
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