Hellenica

(Ἑλληνικά). An historical treatise by Xenophon (q.v.), dealing with the period of forty-eight years preceding the battle of Mantinea (B.C. 362). As it begins where the history of Thucydides (q.v.) ends, the first part is sometimes called the “Paralipomena of Thucydides.” The Hellenica is in seven books, and is written in a dry, somewhat uninteresting style. Separate editions with notes are those of Hailstone (bks. i. and ii., 1867); Breitenbach (1863); Büchsenschütz (1876); and Dowdall (bk. i. 1890); of bks. i.-iv. by Manatt (Boston, 1886), and v.-vii. by Bennett (Boston, 1892). A fine English version is that of Dakyns in his translation of Xenophon (1893). See Xenophon.