Larissa was the birthplace of Meno, who thus turned, coupled with Xenophon and a few Other people, among the generals major many thousands Greeks from many places, within the unwell-fated expedition of 401 (retold in Xenophon's Anabasis) meant that will help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes