Coenus

Coenus is another Greek character who owes something to the character of Xenophon, whose works Coenus can quote at length. Coenus is another penniless aristocrat; not an exile, but one of those men who so lacks ambition that he has taken to soldiering as the easiest way to live and remain, at least in his own eyes, a gentlemen. He’s big and tough, good at games, a superb hunter and outdoorsman (Greek aristocrats preserved outdoors skills better than the city-living middle class).

He is well educated, and his friendship with Kineas dates to the Academy in Athens, which both attended.