title: Toxic honey and the march up-country.
abstract: This article gives an account of the Greek warrior-historian Xenophon and his Anabasis (The March Up-Country), one of the most famous events in military history. It includes a description of how the Greek soldiers, after reaching apparent safety near the south-eastern Black Sea, were felled by a strange honey that rendered them as if dead for a day. Modern understanding of the toxicology of this honey is given, then an epilogue summarizing the rest of Xenophon's life.
authors.affiliation: cgdaugh@io.com
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Daugherty
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D049690:History, Ancient; D006722:Honey / Q000633:toxicity*; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000266:history*; D014857:Warfare