Athenian soldier and writer who was a student of Socrates and who wrote the Anabasis — the account of his leadership of 10,000 Greek mercenaries out of Persia — and the Cyropaedia — a biographical account of Cyrus the Great as ideal leader.
Produced the earliest extended account of practical military leadership under crisis conditions (Anabasis) and the first extended work of leadership biography (Cyropaedia) — making him the ancestor of both military history and leadership literature.
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