Larissa was the birthplace of Meno, who thus turned, as well as Xenophon and some others, one of several generals primary various thousands Greeks from numerous places, while in the unwell-fated expedition of 401 (retold in Xenophon's Anabasis) meant to help you Cyrus the Young, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerx