Expedition of Cyrus
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Cyrus' expedition · collected an army to support Cyrus · dispatched it against the King · the expedition
in the texts
Vitae philosophorum
The mercenary campaign under Cyrus that Xenophon joined, followed by hardship and return.
After the expedition and the misfortunes which overtook it in Pontus and the treacheries of Seuthes, the king of the Odrysians, he returned to Asia, having enlisted the troops of Cyrus as mercenaries in the service of Agesilaus, the Spartan king, to whom he was devoted beyond measure.
We have his own sufficient narrative of all that happened on the expedition and on the return home.
Proxenus, while living in Sardis at the court of Cyrus, wrote a letter to Xenophon at Athens, inviting him to come and seek the friendship of Cyrus.
Panathenaicus
The military expedition sent by Sparta in support of Cyrus against the Persian king.
And yet, after they had given these pledges both to our allies and to the King and had conquered us in war, they reduced those whom they had sworn to set free to a state of slavery worse than that of the Helots, and they returned the favour of the King in such wise that they persuaded Cyrus, his younger brother, to dispute the throne with him, and collected an army to support Cyrus, placing Clearc …