No such summary is affixed to book six. The transition between book five and book six is seamless.1 Xenophon thus brings it about that these two books constitute a single stage or moment in the logos of Part III, itself the most important stage of the logos of the Anabasis. What gives ...
onthemurderofClitusinBookIV.Hereisasummaryoftheunit:duringasympo-siuminhonoroftheDioscuri,somefellowdinerswereflatteringAlexanderbyclaim-ingthatboththeDioscuri’sfeatsaswellasthoseofHerculesandPhilipwerefarin-feriortohisownachievements.Clitus,whohadalwaysopposedAlexander’sembracingofeasterncustoms,begantoattackAlexa...