Larissa was the birthplace of Meno, who So grew to become, in addition to Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading many hundreds Greeks from several sites, in the unwell-fated expedition of 401 (retold in Xenophon's Anabasis) meant that can help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxe