Larissa was the birthplace of Meno, who Hence turned, coupled with Xenophon and a few others, one of several generals major numerous hundreds Greeks from different locations, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 (retold in Xenophon's Anabasis) meant to help Cyrus the Young, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II a