Finished Anabasis (for now)

Well, I finished giving Anabasis an initial read-through, though I have to admit I sorta faded out at the end and didn't get much out of the last parts. After X. got his folks to the Black sea they went west, partly by boat and partly by land, until they got to the far side of the Bosporus strait, at which time they crossed into Byzantium (later named Constantinople now Istanbul). There was some sort of conflict there, in which his soldiers almost took the city for themselves, but if I read it right, he talked them out of it.

Anyway, the upshot of it was they successfully made their fighting retreat from Babylon back to Hellenica. Overall a very interesting book. As Adler says in How to Read a Book, great books like this one have to be read over and over and one gets something different out of them each time.