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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.
Shane Brennan's memoir In the Tracks of the Ten Thousand: A Journey on Foot through Turkey, Syria and Iraq (2005) recounts his 2000 journey to re-trace the steps of the Ten Thousand. [ 13 ] Valerio Massimo Manfredi 's 2007 novel L'armata perduta ( The Lost Army ) tells the story of the army through Abira, a Syrian girl, who decides to follow a ...
The Southern Colchis War or the War of the Ten Thousand was a conflict that took place in Southern Colchis (near Trabzon) between elite and heavily armored Greek hoplites and the Colchian people. Since Xenophon did not name this battle in his work Anabasis , the conflict is referred to by the region where it took place.
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Free Rein is a British drama television series created and written by Vicki Lutas and Anna McCleery. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It stars Jaylen Barron , Navia Robinson (seasons 1-2) and Freddy Carter . Produced in the UK by Lime Pictures , the ten-part Series 1 premiered on Netflix on 23 June 2017.
The Ten Thousand (401–399) were a Greek mercenary army made famous by Xenophon, one of their generals, when he wrote his Anabasis. [ 2 ] Through the 4th century BC, mercenaries were widely employed as is shown by the careers of such as Iphicrates , Chares and Charidemus .
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(Greek: Θάλαττα! θάλαττα! — "The Sea! The Sea!") or Thálassa! Thálassa! was the cry of joy when the roaming Ten Thousand Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos (the Black Sea) from Mount Theches (Θήχης) near Trebizond, after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against the Persian Empire in the year 401 BC.