Editing Xenophon (section)

=== Life after ''Anabasis'' ===
Xenophon's ''Anabasis'' ends in 399 BC in the city of [[Pergamon]] with the arrival of the Spartan commander [[Thimbron (fl. 400–391 BC)|Thimbron]]. Thimbron's campaign is described in ''[[Hellenica]]''.<ref>Hellenica III, 1</ref> In the describtors, after capturing [[Teuthrania]] and [[Halisarna]], the Greeks led by Thimbron lay siege to [[Larissa Phrikonis|Larissa]]. Failing to capture Larissa, the Greeks fall back to [[Caria]]. As a result, the [[ephors]] of Sparta recall Thimbron and send [[Dercylidas]] to lead the Greek army. After facing the court at Sparta, Thimbron is banished. Xenophon describes Dercylidas as a significantly more experienced commander than Thimbron.

Led by Dercylidas, Xenophon and the Greek army march to Aeolis and capture nine cities in 8 days, including [[Larissa Phrikonis|Larissa]], [[Hamaxitus]], and [[Kolonai]].<ref name="Hellenica III, 2">Hellenica III, 2</ref> The Persians negotiated a temporary truce, and the Greek army retired for a winter camp at [[Byzantium]]. In 398 BC, Xenophon captured the city of [[Lampsacus]]. The Spartan ephors officially cleared the [[Ten Thousand (Greek mercenaries)|Ten Thousand]] of any previous wrongdoing (the Ten Thousand were likely a part of the investigation of Thimbron's failure at Larissa) and integrated the Ten Thousand into Dercylidas' army. ''Hellenica'' mentions the response of the commander of the Ten Thousand, "But men of Lacedaemon, we are the same men now as we were last year; but the commander now is one man (Dercylidas), and in the past was another (Thimbron). Therefore you are at once able to judge for yourselves the reason why we are not at fault now, although we were then."<ref name="Hellenica III, 2" />

In 397 BC, Dercylidas' force mirrored the movement of [[Tissaphernes]]' and [[Pharnabazus II|Pharnabazus]]' forces near [[Ephesus]] but did not engage in battle. The Persian army retreated to [[Aydın|Tralles]] and the Greeks to [[Leucophrys]]. Dercylidas proposed the new terms of truce to Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus and the three parties submitted the truce proposal to Sparta and the Persian king for ratification. Under Dercylidas' proposal, the Persians abandoned claims to independent Greek cities in Ionia, and the Spartans withdrew the army.

In 396 BC, the newly appointed Spartan king, [[Agesilaus II|Agesilaus]], arrived at Ephesus and assumed command of the army from Dercylidas. Xenophon joined Agesilaus' campaign for the Ionian Greece independence of 396–394 BC. In 394 BC, Agesilaus' army returned to Greece, taking the route of the Persian invasion eighty years earlier and fought in the [[Battle of Coronea (394 BC)|Battle of Coronea]]. Athens banished Xenophon for fighting on the Spartan side. Xenophon probably followed Agesilaus' march to Sparta in 394 BC and finished his military journey after seven years. Xenophon received an estate in [[Scillus]] where he spent the next twenty-three years. In 371 BC, after the [[Battle of Leuctra]], the [[Elis (regional unit)|Elians]] confiscated Xenophon's estate, and, according to [[Diogenes Laërtius]], Xenophon moved to [[Corinth]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Diogenes Laërtius|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_II#Xenophon|title=Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers|at=Book II, part 5}}</ref> Diogenes writes that Xenophon lived in Corinth until his death in 354 BC, at around the age of 74 or 75. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] mentions Xenophon's tomb in [[Scillus]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.6|title=Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 1, chapter 6|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>