Genre, models and functions of Xenophon's work in comparison with Isocrates’ λόγοι
It is evident that the framework of the Anabasis has areas of overlap with works of history,whether by Thucydides or by Herodotus, but it is equally evident that its individual components are used in a different way and to different purposes. The encomiastic and auto-eulogising component is flanked by the description of characters who are described in their positive and negative aspects, according to a tendency that will be consolidated in the historiography of the fourth century. Both elements coincide in the characteristics of the ideal commander.