‘In mustering the Greeks under arms, their numbers were found to be ten thousand four hundred heavy-armed men, and two thousand four hundred peltasts; of Barbarian troops under Cyrus, there were one hundred thousand, with about twenty chariots armed with scythes.’
In 401 BCE, Cyrus the Younger hired ten thousand Greek mercenaries to help him seize the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother Artaxerxes II. Xenophon was one of the Greek mercenaries present at this expedition and eventually he documented his experience in writing as Anabasis. Anabasis is now a record of one of the greatest adventures in human history and an invaluable document on the world of Classical Greece.
Xenophon of Athens was a Greek military leader and historian.
John Selby Watson was a British classical translator and scholar. However, his scholarly contributions were overshadowed by his crime of murdering his wife. His case was notable for his use of a plea of insanity as his defense which eventually led to his sentence being reduced from death to life imprisonment.