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Route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (red line) in the Achaemenid Empire.The satrapy of Cyrus the Younger is delineated in green.. The Ten Thousand (Ancient Greek: οἱ Μύριοι, hoi Myrioi) were a force of mercenary units, mainly Greeks, employed by Cyrus the Younger to attempt to wrest the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II.
Route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (red line) in the Achaemenid Empire.The satrapy of Cyrus the Younger is delineated in green.. Written years after the events it recounts, Xenophon's book Anabasis (Greek: ἀνάβασις, literally "going up") [14] is his record of the expedition of Cyrus and the Greek mercenaries' journey to home. [15]
Xenophon's Anabasis, translated by Carleton Lewis Brownson. [1]Anabasis (/ ə ˈ n æ b ə s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνάβασις; an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. [2]
Xenophon noted that those who consumed small amounts of the honey became drunk, while those who consumed a lot went mad. It is believed that the Colchians deliberately left this honey out, and that mad honey was the first biological weapon used in history to incapacitate enemies.
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Anaxibius shipped the Ten Thousand of Xenophon from Chrysopolis to Byzantium. Anaxibius ( Ancient Greek : Ἀναξίβιος ), was the Spartan admiral stationed at Byzantium in 400 BC, to whom the Greek troops of Cyrus the Younger , on their arrival at Trapezus on the Euxine , sent their general, Cheirisophus , to obtain a sufficient number ...