![]() ![]() Can they survive unfriendly tribes, get passed wide rivers, over high mountains, overcome snowy weather and get back to their native, wonderful Greece alive? New leaders are chosen and Xenophon becomes a general, a dubious honor in these bleak conditions. After the Greek generals are killed by treachery, a meeting that was a bloodbath, no leaders either. When Cyrus is slain at the battle of Cunaxa, the foreigners have lost their reason for being in Persia, in a hostile nation which despises the invaders. The Greeks were ostensibly recruited to defeat local enemies and receive coins. Cyrus doesn't tell his foreign mercenaries, the 10,000 that he wants to replace his brother as king. The impoverished Greeks look to the Persian Empire for any loot they can get there hands on. With the end of the Peloponnesian War and Sparta's victory over dejected Athens, the glory has vanished. ![]() He agrees to his friend's Proxenus plee, urging him to fight for the treacherous Prince Cyrus, younger brother of Artaxerxes II, the Persian king in 401 B.C. Xenophon is an ambitious 20ish man from a prominent family in Athens that doesn't have money anymore because of the war with Sparta, which they lost. ![]()
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