Larissa was the birthplace of Meno, who Consequently became, along with Xenophon and a few others, among the list of generals leading several 1000's Greeks from many areas, in the sick-fated expedition of 401 (retold in Xenophon's Anabasis) intended to aid Cyrus the Young, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II