Editing Xenophon (section)

===Early years===
Xenophon was born {{circa|430&nbsp;BC}}<ref name="xvii">Strassler et al., [https://books.google.com/books?id=zJuJdxrLo2IC&pg=PR17 xvii] ({{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420002148/https://books.google.com/books?id=zJuJdxrLo2IC&pg=PR17 |date=20 April 2022}})</ref> in the [[deme]] (local district) of [[Erchia]] in [[Classical Athens|Athens]]; his father was called Gryllus ({{lang|grc|Γρύλλος}}) and belonged to an Athenian aristocratic family.{{Sfn|Tuplin|2012|p=1580: "Xenophon, son of Gryllus, from the Athenian deme of Erchia, born into a rich but politcally inactive family around 430 BC"}}{{Sfn|Sacks|Murray|1995|p=268: "Born into a rich, aristocratic family at Athens [...] he married an Athenian woman, Philesia, and had two sons, Gryllus (named for Xenophon's father) and Diodorus"}} The [[Peloponnesian War]] was being waged throughout Xenophon's childhood and youth.{{Sfn|Sacks|Murray|1995|p=268}} A contemporary of [[Plato]], Xenophon associated with [[Socrates]], as was common for wealthy young men in this period, and probably served in the Athenian cavalry.{{Sfn|Tuplin|2012|p=1580}}{{Sf|Sacks|Murray|1995|p=268}} He appears to have remained in Athens during the overthrow of Athenian democracy under the [[Thirty Tyrants]], and fought democratic insurgents in the civil war of 403–404.{{Sfn|Tuplin|2012|p=1580}}  Accounts of events in ''[[Hellenica]]'' suggest that Xenophon personally witnessed tumultuous political events such as the [[Alcibiades#Return to Athens|return of Alcibiades]] in 407 BC, the [[Battle of Arginusae#Trial of the generals|trial of the generals]] in 406 BC, and the overthrow of the [[Thirty Tyrants]] in 403 BC. 

Personally invited by Proxenus of Beotia (''Anabasis'' 3.1.9), one of the captains in Cyrus's mercenary army, Xenophon, sailed to [[Ephesus]] to meet [[Cyrus the Younger]] and participate in Cyrus's military campaign against [[Tissaphernes]], the Persian [[satrap]] of [[Ionia]]. Xenophon describes his life in 401 BC and 400 BC in the memoir ''[[Anabasis (Xenophon)|Anabasis]]''.