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Xenophon\'s 6,000 survivors
#1
Khairete,

After Xenophon had led the 10,000 through their grueling Odyssey, they stood a short hop away from Greece with little to stop them from returning. Rather than return home, the remaining 6,000 of Xenophon's troops chose to join the Spartan campaign against Tissaphernes. So, after everything, they turned around and plunged once again into the fray.

What became of them? How did the campaign go? Is it known how many of the 6,000 finally made it back home?

Khairete,

-Aedon
Felix Lucini

It will not be long before you have forgotten all the world, and in a little time all the world will have forgotten you.
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#2
Some of them came back to Europe with Agesilaus and fought against the Thebans and their allies at Coronea in 394: Xenophon (Hellenica III.4.20) refers to Herippidas taking command of "the Cyreians", the survivors of the 10,000; and at IV.3.16 and 17 to Herippidas still commanding mercenaries at Coronea. He doesn't say how many Cyreians there were left.

cheers,
Duncan
cheers,
Duncan
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#3
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
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