Deed — 3 authors face each other below

battle of Cunaxa

kind: battle · 401 BCE — the editor’s frame · 6 mentions across 5 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the year anchors receipt — the witness index

The 401 BCE battle of the brothers ('ninety-eight days... before the battle of Cunaxa', FH II p.174).

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

How Cyrus died: Xenophon cites Ctesias the royal surgeon for the king's wound and admits he was not beside Cyrus at the end; Plutarch stages the full trial of sources — praising Xenophon's battle, then setting Deinon's version and Ctesias' version of the death side by side. The index's clearest case of the ancients doing source criticism on each other.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 401 BCE on the editor’s table of years — within Olympiad 94 .

· 401 BCE — date secure ·

W2 anchored 401 BCE from Clinton's spine; Xenophon marched in the army he narrates.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · 2 accounts

6–13 the principal narrative The battle from the Persian court's side, built on Deinon and Ctesias.

is called Cunaxa, and it is five hundred furlongs distant from Babylon. Plut. Artaxerxes 8

Artaxerxes · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

8–9 auditing another's account Plutarch weighing his sources aloud: Xenophon praised, then Deinon against Ctesias on the death of Cyrus.

is called Cunaxa, and it is five hundred furlongs distant from Babylon. Plut. Artaxerxes 8

there is no objection perhaps to my recounting, first what Deinon says about it, and then what Ctesias says. Plut. Artaxerxes 9

'Since Xenophon makes simple and brief mention of it, because he was not present himself' — the critic names the gap in the eyewitness. Artaxerxes · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Xenophon · one account

1.8 the principal narrative The eyewitness account from the Greek right wing, citing Ctesias for the king's wound.

came galloping up at full speed on his horse, which was bathed in sweat Xen. An. 1.8

Anabasis · H. G. Dakyns, 1890-1897

Diogenes Laertius · one account

2.50-52 in passing Diogenes pointing readers at the Anabasis itself for the whole story.

We have his own sufficient narrative of all that happened on the expedition and on the return home. D.L. 2.50-52

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V) · R. D. Hicks, 1925

…and the house’s first pass counts 1 more episode beyond these anchors.

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Cyrus — a candidate entry Cyrus the Younger — 3 episodes shared Xenophon — 3 episodes shared Proxenus — a candidate entry Artagerses — 1 episode shared Artaxerxes — 1 episode shared Asiatics — a candidate entry Aspasia — a candidate entry Atossa — a candidate entry Clearchus — a candidate entry

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logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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