Larissa was the birthplace of Meno, who Consequently became, as well as Xenophon and a few Many others, among the generals main various thousands Greeks from various areas, within 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