# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cyrus-the-younger
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:45:16.077Z

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name: "Cyrus the Younger"
slug: "cyrus-the-younger"
description: "A Persian prince who tried to kill his way to the throne and lost. His failure in 401 BC would have been a footnote, but the 10,000 Greek mercenaries he left stranded in enemy territory marched home and one of them wrote it all down."
tagline: "Achaemenid prince, satrap of Lydia from 408 to 401 BC"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "-500"
deathDate: "-401"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           22.71510266666667
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Cyrus was born to Darius II and Parysatis, a younger son in the Achaemenid line. From 408 BC he ruled as satrap of Lydia and Ionia, the empire's western edge. When his father died and his elder brother Artaxerxes II took the Persian throne, Cyrus raised an army — including 10,000 Greek hirelings — and marched inland to take it for himself. He died in battle in 401 BC, the coup collapsed, and the Greeks were left deep in hostile ground. Their long retreat became the subject of Xenophon's Anabasis, and that text, along with fragments from Ctesias and Plutarch, is the only reason anyone remembers him.