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I started reading this last night. A couple random thoughts from someone who doesn't read much anymore(sadly, trying to fix that). Also even when I read more the only ancient Greek things I read were the Iliad and the Odyssey. 1) Cyrus is kind of a manipulative dude, basically slowly pulling the mercenaries into this battle. I kind of half wonder if they would have gotten even a fraction of what he promised had he actually won. 2) Reading the army descriptions before the big battle, it was funny/startling to hear that the Great King's army was 1.2 million. Wikipedia says 40,000 at Cunaxa so I guess that's Xenophon basically saying "They had a shitton of guys." Would his readers actually have believed that number, or would they have understood as "Their army was really really big"? 3) There was a Greek admiral named Pythagoras. I wasn't expecting it to be the Pythagoras I'd heard of and, unsurprisingly, it wasn't.
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