Xenophon\'s 6,000 survivors

[hoplite14gr]

Usually the Greek colonies were richer than the Greek mainland.
Even after the wars the veterans might opt to stay as garisson troops or even try to gain citizenship there. Usually the colonies were offering the citizenship as an atraction to recruit mercenaries and the citizenship laws were more lax outside Athens and Sparta. The colonies had non been greatly affected by the Pelloponesian War and finding good land that would support a man and his family was easier there. Perhaps men of comaprable social and edjucational status of Xenophon could attach themselves to the rich mercandile families in the area.
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Stefanos