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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]
The Colchian leaders were aware of the route the Greeks were taking through Colchis. Therefore, as Xenophon approached Colchis, he encountered military forces. The Colchian forces had positioned themselves on a strategic hill along the route to Trabzon, likely in the Pontic Mountains.
According to Xenophon, Cyrus the Younger was born after the accession of his father in 424 BC. [1] He had an elder brother, Arsicas (whose name changed to Artaxerxes II when he ascended the throne), and two younger brothers named Ostanes and Oxathres.
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 ...
Just after noon on Sunday, March 20, 2011, Debbie canceled plans to go get a manicure. She felt sick, and was lying down when the police came to the door. Joseph’s Jetta had run off Route 139, a narrow winding road in Somers, and struck a utility pole. He was dead. The VA never did get back to Joseph.
The moving moment described by Xenophon has stirred the imagination of readers in later centuries, as chronicled in a study by Tim Rood. [7] Heinrich Heine uses the cry in his cycle of poems Die Nordsee published in Buch der Lieder in 1827. [8] The first poem of the second cycle, Meergruß ('Sea Greeting'), begins: Thalatta! Thalatta!