The Cavalry General
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~14,100 words · 67 passages
Cite this work
- APAXenophon. (n.d.). The Cavalry General. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/the-cavalry-general
- MLAXenophon. "The Cavalry General." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/the-cavalry-general.
- ChicagoXenophon. The Cavalry General. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/xenophon/the-cavalry-general.
What it is about
Instructions for the commander of the Athenian cavalry: recruitment, training, tactics and morale.
Context and history
It complements the horsemanship manual and shows Xenophon as a practical officer. It is most interesting for its attention to what we would now call leadership: much of the text is about getting men to want to obey.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though there is doubt about some of these) is: Work Number of books The Anabasis 7 The Hellenica 7 The Cyropaedia 8 The Memorabilia 4 The Symposium 1 The Economist 1 On Horsemanship 1 The Sportsman 1 The Cavalry General 1 The Apology 1 On Revenues 1 The Hiero 1 The Agesilaus 1 The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2 Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical marks have been lost. THE CAVALRY GENERAL THE DUTIES OF A HIPPARCH (1) or Comm
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