Cunaxa and the march of the Ten Thousand
Greek mercenaries fight their way from Mesopotamia to the sea
Cyrus the Younger and his Greek mercenaries marched against his brother, King Artaxerxes II, and Cyrus was killed at Cunaxa. The Ten Thousand Greeks, left without employer or generals, fought their way through the mountains of Kurdistan and Armenia to the Black Sea. One of them, Xenophon, told the story in the Anabasis.
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Alive at the time
- Socrates (aged 69)
- Plato (aged 27)
- Hippocrates (aged 59)
- Aspasia (aged 69)