Xenophon
Also known as: Xenophon of Athens
Xenophon of Athens was a Greek military leader, philosopher, economist, and historian.
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Xenophon: Achaemenid Empire
At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been part of Cyrus the Younger's attempt to seize control of the Achaemenid Empire.
Xenophon: Cyrus Takes Babylon, 539 BCE
Both the Babylonian Chronicles and the Cyrus Cylinder describe Babylon being taken "without battle", whereas the Greek historians Herodotus and Xenophon report that the city was besieged.