March of the Ten Thousand

Ancient Warfare Podcast

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Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

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🗓️ 25 July 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Josho, Murray and Lindsay are joined by Roel Konijnendijk to discuss Ancient Warfare issue VII.5

"The march of the Ten Thousand is one of the best documented campaigns in Greek military history, thanks to the detailed narrative of Xenophon. He was a young Athenian expatriate who eventually rose to a senior position of command among the Hellenic survivors of Cyrus’ mercenary army."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast produced by the History Network. If you have any
0:06.4	comments or ideas, email editor at ancient-warfare.com. And for other discussions, check out the
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0:28.6	www.thehistorynetwork.org.
0:32.6	Good day. Welcome to the Ancient Warfare podcast. I am your host, Joshua Browse, editor of Ancient Warfare Magazine.
0:40.3	I'm joined tonight by some of our regular panelists, Lindsay Powell, Mary Daum, and we also have an expert here tonight to join us, Ruhle Konaidadag, a PhD student from University College in London.
0:57.0	Tonight we're going to be talking about issue 7.5 on Xenophon and more specifically the march of the 10,000 based on his Anabasis.
1:09.0	And to kick off as always, here is Michael Taylor's
1:12.9	introduction. Next to Caesar's commentaries, the anabasis of Xenophon represents the most
1:20.0	complete description we have of an ancient military campaign. Zenophon was a young Athenian
1:26.4	aristocrat who studied under Socrates.
1:28.3	The political climate in Athens in 401 proved quite hostile to young men affiliated with Socrates.
1:36.3	The Athenians had finally overthrown the tyrannical puppet government installed by Sparta after the Peloponnesian War. And the most bloodthirsty
1:46.4	of these Spartan puppets had been Critious, another student of Socrates. Xenophon, therefore,
1:54.5	jumped at an invitation to join a mercenary army and campaign under Cyrus, the brother of the Persian king Artaxerxes.
2:04.4	Cyrus had been a major architect of the Spartan victory during the Peloponnesian War,
2:10.0	having provided the Spartans with the money and ships that they needed to finally defeat Athens.
2:16.3	Using contacts formed during the war, Cyrus now gathered an enormous
2:21.2	army, supposedly for a campaign in the Anatolian highlands, but in reality for a daring bid to
2:28.6	overthrow his brother. Cyrus recruited over 13,000 Greek mercenaries, mostly from the Peloponnese, in addition to the levies from his own provinces in Asia Minor.
2:42.7	Cyrus then began a steady march into the heartland of the Persian Empire.
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