ABROCOMAS: One of the commanders of the King’s army.
ABROZEIMES: Interpreter of King Seuthes.
AENEAS OF STYMPHALUS: A captain in the Greek army.
AESCHINES: An Acarnanian captain of peltasts in the Greek army.
AGASIAS OF STYMPHALUS: A distinguished captain of hoplites in the Greek army.
AGESILAUS: A king of Sparta with whom Xenophon served later in a campaign against Persia.
AGIAS: An Arcadian. One of the generals of Cyrus’s Greek mercenaries.
AMPHICRATES: An Athenian soldier in “the Greek army.
ANAXIBIUS: Spartan admiral at Byzantium.
APOLLONIDES: A Lydian with a Boeotian accent.
ARBACES: Governor of Media and one of the commanders of the King’s army.
ARCHAGORAS: An exile from Argos and captain in the Greek army.
AREXION: An Arcadian soothsayer in the Greek army.
ARIAEUS: A Persian. Second in command to Cyrus.
ARISTARCHUS: Spartan governor of Byzantium.
ARISTEAS OF CHIOS: A captain of peltasts in the Greek army.
ARISTIPPUS: A Thessalian general who raised troops for Cyrus.
ARISTON: An Athenian sent as representative of the army to Sinope.
ARISTONYMUS THE MBTHY-DRIAN: A captain of hoplites in the Greek army.
ARTAGERSES: Persian commander of the King’s bodyguard.
ARTAOZUS: A Persian commander in Cyrus’s army.
ART AP AT AS: One of Cyrus’s most trusted officers.
ARTAXERXES: King of Persia and elder brother of Cyrus.
ARTUCHAS: A Persian commander in Armenia.
ARYSTAS: An Arcadian officer in the Greek army.
ASIDATES: A Persian nobleman in Asia Minor.
BASIAS: An Arcadian in the Greek army.
BELESYS: A Persian governor of Syria.
BION: An officer in Thibron’sarmy.
BOISCUS: A Thessalian boxerin the Greek army.
CALLIMACHUS OF PARRH-ASIA: A captain of hoplites in the Greek army.
CEPHISODORUS: An Athenian captain in the Greek army.
CHARMINUS: A Spartan officer in Thibron’s army.
CHIRISOPHUS: A Spartan mercenary captain serving under Cyrus.
CIEAENETUS: A captain in the Greek army.
CLEANDER: Spartan governor of Byzantium.
CLEANOR: An Arcadian. The oldest of the Greek generals.
CLEARATUS: A captain in the Greek army.
CLEARCHUS: A Spartan exile. The most prominent of the generals serving under Cyrus.
COIRATADAS: A Theban mercenary captain.
CORYLAS: King of the Paphlagonians.
CTESIAS: A Greek doctor in the service of the King of Persia.
CYNISCUS: A Spartan officer in the area of Byzantium.
CYRUS: Younger brother of Artaxerxes and pretender to the throne.
DAMARATUS: A Spartan king who had been exiled and taken refuge with the King of Persia.
DAPHNAGORAS: A friend of Hellas.
DARIUS II: King of Persia and father of Artaxerxes and Cyrus.
DEMOCRATES OF TEMENUS: An officer in the Greek army.
DERCYLIDAS: A Spartan commander who fought in Asia Minor.
DEXIPPUS: A Spartan officer who deserted the Greek Army.
DRACONTIUS: A Spartan exile serving in the Greek army.
EPISTHENES OF AMPHIPOLIS: Commander of the Greek peltasts at the battle of Cunaxa.
EPYAXA: Wife of the King of Cilicia.
ETEONICUS: An officer in the garrison of Byzantium.
EUCLIDES: A soothsayer in Lampsacus.
EURYLOCHUS OF Lusia: A hoplite in the Greek army.
EURYMACHUS: A Dardanian in the Greek army.
GAULITES: An exile from Samos, serving with Cyrus.
GLOUS: One of Cyrus’s interpreters.
GNESIPPUS: An Athenian officer in the Greek army.
GOBRYAS: One of the commanders of the King’s army.
GONGYLUS: (I) A Greek chieftain in Asia Minor. (2) His son.
GORGIAS OF LEONTINI: A famous Sophist.
GORGION: Son of Hellas and Gongylus.
HECATONYMUS: An orator. from Sinope.
HEGESANDER: A general of the Arcadians in the Greek army.
HELLAS: Wife of Gongylus.
HERACLIDES: Confidential agent of King Seuthes.
HIERONYMUS OF ELIS: A captain in the Greek army.
IT AMENES: A Persian commander in Asia Minor.
JASON: The leader of the Argonauts.
LEON OF THURII: A soldier inthe Greek army.
LEONYMUS: A Spartan soldierin the Greek army.
LYCIUS: (I) A Syracusan in the Greek army. (2) An Athenian.
Commander of the Greek cavalry during the retreat.
LYCON: An Achaean in the Greek army.
MAESADES: Father of King Seuthes.
MARSYAS: A mythical character who attempted with his flute to surpass Apollo in music.
MEDEA: Queen of the Medes at the time of the Persian conquest.
MEDOCUS: King of the Odry-SAE
MEDOSADES: Diplomatic agent of King Seuthes.
MEGABYZUS: Warden of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
MEGAPHERNES: A Persian notable, executed by Cyrus.
MENON THE THESSALIAN: One of the leading Greek generals serving under Cyrus.
MILTOCYTHES: A Thracian captain with Cyrus’s Greek troops.
MITHRASADATES: A Persian commander in Cyrus’s army.
MYSUS: A Mysian in the Greek army.
NAUSICLIDES: An officer in Thibron’s army.
NEON OF ASINE: A general in the Greek army.
NICANDER: A Spartan who killed Dexippus.
NICARCHUS: An Arcadian in the Greek army.
NICOMACHUS OF OETA: A commander of peltasts in the Greek army.
ORONTAS: (I) A Persian nobleman in Cyrus’s army, executed as a traitor. (2) A Persian army commander and the King’s son-in-law. Governor of Armenia.
PARYSATIS: Wife of Darius II and mother of Artaxerxes and Cyrus.
PÀSION OF MEGARA: A mercenary captain who served under Cyrus.
PHALINUS: A Greek officer in the service of Tissaphernes.
PHARNABAZUS: Persian governor of the Hellespontine seaboard.
PHILESIUS: An Achaean general in the Greek army.
PHRASIAS: An Athenian officer in the Greek army.
PHRYNISCUS : An Achaean general in the Greek army.
PIGRES: One of Cyrus’s interpreters.
PLEISTHENES OF AMPHIPO-LIS: A soldier in the Greek army.
POLUS: Spartan admiral at Byzantium.
POLYCRATES: An Athenian captain in the Greek army.
POLYNICUS: A Spartan delegate from Thibron’s army.
PROCLES: Governor of Teuthrania. An officer in Cyrus’s army.
PROXENUS: A Theban mercenary captain and one of the Greek generals serving under Cyrus.
PYRRHIAS: An Arcadian officer in the Greek army.
PYTHAGORAS: A Spartan naval commander serving with Cyrus.
RHATHINES: A Persian commander under Pharnabazus.
SAMOLAS: An Achaean officer in the Greek army.
SEUTHES: King of Thrace.
SILANUS: (1) A Greek soothsayer in Cyrus’s army. (2) A young soldier in the Greek army.
SMICRES: A general of the Arcadians in the Greek army.
SOCRATES THE ACHAEAN: A mercenary captain who served under Cyrus.
SOCRATES THE ATHENIAN: The philosopher, and a friend of Xenophon.
SOPHAENETUS OP STYMPHA-LUS: A mercenary captain who served under Cyrus.
SO SIS: A mercenary captain from Syracuse who served under Cyrus.
SOTERIDAS: A soldier from Sicyon in the Greek army.
SPITHRIDATES: A Persian commander under Pharnabazus.
STRATOCLES: A Cretan. Commander of the Cretans in the Greek army.
SYBNNESIS: The King of Cilicia.
TAMOS: The Egyptian admiral of Cyrus’s fleet.
TERES: An ancestor of Seuthes, King of Thrace.
THEOGENES: A Locrian in the Greek army.
THEOPOMPUS: An Athenian in the Greek army.
THIBRON: Spartan commander of a force operating against Persia.
THORAX: A Boeotian serving in the Greek army.
TIMASION: A Dardanian general in the Greek army.
TIMESITHEUS: A native of Trapezus.
TIRIBAZUS: Persian governor of Western Armenia.
TISSAPHERNES: One of the commanders of the King’s army and governor of the Aegean coast of Asia Minor.
TOLMIDES THE ELEAN: Herald in the Greek army.
XANTHICLES: An Achaean general in the Greek army.
XENIAS OP PARRHASIA: A Greek mercenary captain.
XENOPHON: An Athenian. General in the Greek army and author of this book.
XERXES: The Persian King who led the unsuccessful invasion of Greece in 480 B.C.
ZELARCHUS: An official of Cerasus.