Ten Thousand Leaderless Greeks Marched Home Through an Empire
Classical Greece

Ten Thousand Leaderless Greeks Marched Home Through an Empire

In 401 BC, ten thousand Greek mercenaries found themselves stranded in the heart of the Persian Empire with their commanders dead—and marched home anyway.

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Classical GreeceAncient PersiaMilitary HistoryPhilosophyXenophonPersian EmpireGreeceButterfly Effect

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