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The Battle of Cunaxa: Cyrus the Younger vs Artaxerxes II
In 401 BCE, a Persian prince named Cyrus the Younger marched from Sardis to Babylon with an army that included 10,000 Greek mercenaries. His goal: seize the Achaemenid throne from his brother, King Artaxerxes II. The showdown came at Cunaxa, a small village north of Babylon. Despite Cyrus's death in the battle, his Greek mercenaries fought their way out and began the legendary retreat that Xenophon immortalized in the Anabasis. This episode follows the campaign from its roots in the Peloponnesian War to the battlefield itself, exploring the political intrigue, the logistics of a mixed…
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