Topic: imperial frontiers (1)

• EventThe Retreat of the Ten Thousand (401–399 BCE)

  The Retreat of the Ten Thousand was the withdrawal and subsequent dispersal, from 401 to 399 BCE, of the Greek force that had marched with Cyrus the Younger after he was killed at Cunaxa. The soldiers first joined Cyrus's Asian troops under Ariaeus and negotiated with Artaxerxes II through…