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Cyrus the Younger

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Noun1.Cyrus the Younger - Persian prince who was defeated in battle by his brother Artaxerxes II (424-401 BC)


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amid the detritus of the recently ended twenty-seven-year-long war between Athens and Sparta, about 13,000 Greek mercenary soldiers marched eastward in the pay of the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger.
Xenophon was one of the well-to-do disciples of Socrates who left Athens to serve with the Greek contingent "the Ten Thousand" raised by Cyrus the Younger of Persia against Artaxersus.
 
 
 
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