Larissa was the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, as well as Xenophon and some Some others, one of several generals major various hundreds Greeks from different areas, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 (retold in Xenophon's Anabasis) meant to help you Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II