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401 BC Chr.
The route of the ten thousand through the Persian Empire
After the battle of Kunaxa , Greek mercenaries take the train of the ten thousand .
401 BC In other calendars
Buddhist calendar 143/144 (southern Buddhism); 142/143 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana )
Chinese calendar 38th (39th) cycle , year of the metal dragon庚辰 ( at the beginning of the year earth-rabbit 己卯)
Greek calendar 3rd / 4th Year of the 94th Olympiad
Jewish calendar 3360/61
Roman calendar from urbe condita CCCLIII (353)

Events

Politics and world events

Persian Empire

Due to the poor performance of Artaxerxes II in the struggle against Egypt's aspirations for freedom , but above all because of his own ambitions, his younger brother Cyrus the Younger wants to take over the government of the Achaemenid Empire . With the support of Sparta , whose partisan he was in the Peloponnesian War , he wins an impressive army of Greek mercenaries. The decisive battle at Kunaxa is fought in autumn a little above Babylon on the Euphrates between the armies of the two brothers.

Cyrus wins, but falls in the battle, which makes the task of his mercenary army obsolete. Under the leadership of the Athenian Xenophon and the Spartan Cheirisophos , the so-called procession of ten thousand made its way through the entire Persian Empire and in the following year reached the southern coast of the Black Sea, which was occupied by Greek cities .

Italy

Marcus Furius Camillus is the first Roman consular tribune and fights in this position against the Etruscan cities of Veio and Tarquinia and the allied Falisker in Falerii , who oppose the expansionist efforts of Rome.

Culture

Sophocles

The drama Oedipus auf Kolonos by Sophocles is performed for the first time posthumously. As part of the “Theban Trilogy”, it stands between the dramas King Oedipus and Antigone , but is only performed as the last of the three parts.

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