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From: mac@uvacs.UUCP (Alex Colvin)
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Subject: Re: Source for THE WARRIORS
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Date: Fri, 13-Dec-85 13:48:43 EST
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>Gelhar's description (borne out by a similar description in Durant's LIFE
>OF GREECE) is:
>
>    Xenophon was one of a bunch of Greek mercenaries that got
>    mixed up in a rebellion in Persia led by a guy named Cyrus
>    (who I assume is the model for the gang leader Cyrus).
>    Anyway, Cyrus is killed, the rebellion fails, and the Greeks
>    are left to march across N miles of hostile Persian
>    territory before they can get home...

Dave, you're correct here.

The movie "The Warriors" is based on the book "The Warriors" by Sol Yurick,
itself loosely based on the Anabasis.  As noted above, the Anabasis is not
a play, it is Xenophon's history of his expedition with a Greek mercenary
force through hostile Asia, and their march back to the sea.  It's a great
story.  Read it!

In the "Warriors" book one of the Warriors carries a Classic Comic of the
Anabasis with him.  After Cyrus is killed they must get back to the sea,
Coney Island, through a host of hostile tribes.

"The Warriors" is a great movie, not to be confused with any real New York
gang scene.  For one thing, everybody has all their teeth.

A good book with another Anabasis in it is "The Good Soldier Schweik", by J.
Hacek.