kevlarbuns OP t1_j4sdbwa wrote on January 17, 2023 at 10:44 PM

Reply to comment by Uri_nil in TIL the 1979 cult classic The Warriors was based on the ancient story of the Anabasis, wherein Xenophon and his group of Greek mercenaries attempt to escape from Persia after the death of Cyrus. by kevlarbuns

Ohhh, that makes a lot of sense. I’m kind of new to Anabasis and got to where they camp below the walls of Nineveh and marvel at an ancient city being so abandoned. I was getting a headache trying to contextualize the overlap.

HPLolzCraft t1_j4tatim wrote on January 18, 2023 at 2:36 AM

This Cyrus was a pretender who hired them through the ionian Greek part of the empire and took them to challenge his cousin, I think, and they won the battle but Cyrus died in the process.

kevlarbuns OP t1_j4tc02k wrote on January 18, 2023 at 2:45 AM

Gotcha. I need to brush up on my Persian history post-Xerxes. I think my brain glazes over when I hit the Ataxerxes. Ataxerxeses.