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Message:: [QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4567268, member: 72790"]There used to be a TV program called, "The Meeting of the Minds" where actors from various periods would come together as the reincarnations of famous people who would then discuss various issues and how they would address them. I am pretty sure Xenophon never showed up and I can't recall Caesar being there but such a confrontation would have been most interesting. I also wonder if Caesar actually had read of Xenophon in his lifetime. Considering that Caesar was well educated he may indeed have read some of Xenophon's writings and if he did, the Anabasis, might have been among Xenophon's works that he read. Xenophon wrote the Anabasis under a pseudonym so Caesar may not have known it was a work BY Xenophon that he was reading. Would they have agreed on much. Xenophon did not hold democracy much in esteem and preferred  strongly conservative government and Caesar might have preferred that aspect of Xenophon to other author's views, and vice versa. I think both had pretty strong feelings about "barbarians" and neither would have lost much sleep wondering about their welfare. Both men possessed outsized egos so I suspect that sooner or later there would have been disagreement between the two. What I find most intriguing is what would have happened had they met on the battlefield.[/QUOTE]