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Hellenica=???????? means writings on Hellenic subjects. Several histories of 4th-century Greece, written in the mold of Thucydides or straying from it, have borne the conventional Latin title Hellenica. The surviving Hellenica is by the Greek writer Xenophon & one of the principal sources for the final seven years of the Peloponnesian War not covered by Thucydides, & its aftermath. Many consider this a very personal work, written by Xenophon in retirement on his Spartan estate, intended primarily for circulation among his friends, for people who knew the main protagonists & events, often because they had participated in them. His account starts in 411 BCE, the year wHere : Thucydides breaks off. It ends in 362, the year of the Battle of Mantineia. THere : is virtually no transition between the two works, to the extent that the first line of Hellenica is translated as After this, or sometimes Following these events.