Editing Mercenary (section)

=====Greek mercenaries in Persian Empire=====
[[File: Detail from the Chigi-vase.jpg|thumb|[[Chigi vase]] with [[hoplite]]s holding javelins and spears]]

* [[Xerxes I]], King of Persia, employed Arcadian mercenaries during his invasion of Greece.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Trundle |first=Matthew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1KSA4tJvsQC |title=Greek Mercenaries: From the Late Archaic Period to Alexander |date=2004-09-09 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-30433-2 |language=en}}</ref>
* In [[Anabasis (Xenophon)|Anabasis]], [[Xenophon]] recounts how [[Cyrus the Younger]] hired a large army of Greek mercenaries (the "[[Ten Thousand (Greek)|Ten Thousand]]") in 401&nbsp;BC to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, [[Artaxerxes II]]. Though Cyrus' army was victorious at the [[Battle of Cunaxa]], Cyrus himself was killed in battle and the expedition rendered moot. Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general [[Clearchus of Sparta|Clearchus]] and most of the other Greek generals were subsequently killed by treachery. Xenophon played an instrumental role in encouraging "The Ten Thousand" Greek army to march north to the [[Black Sea]] in an epic fighting retreat.<ref>[[Xenophon]], ''[[Anabasis (Xenophon)|Anabasis]]'' vii. 1. 1–32</ref>
* The [[Sileraioi]] were a group of ancient mercenaries most likely employed by the tyrant [[Dionysius I of Syracuse]].<ref>J. B. Bury, ''The Cambridge Ancient History'' VI: Macedon, 401–301 BC, Ch. 5, Cambridge: University Press, 1975.</ref>
* In 378 BC the Persian Empire hired the [[Athenian]] general [[Iphicrates]] with his mercenaries in the [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] campaign.<ref>Polyaenus, {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20210621062830/https://cts.perseids.org/read/greekLit/tlg0616/tlg001/1st1K-grc1/3.9 ''Strategems'']}}, 3.9.38</ref>
* The [[Mania (satrap)|Mania]], who was a sub-[[satrap]], used Greek mercenaries in order to capture other cities in the region.<ref>Xenophon, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg001.perseus-grc1:3.1.13 ''Hellenika''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220621194228/https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0032.tlg001.perseus-grc1:3.1.13 |date=21 June 2022 }}, 3.1.13</ref>
* [[Memnon of Rhodes]] (380–333&nbsp;BC) was the commander of the Greek mercenaries working for the Persian King [[Darius III]] when [[Alexander the Great]] of [[Macedon]]ia invaded Persia in 334&nbsp;BC and won the [[Battle of the Granicus River]].{{sfn|Schuster|2016|pages=366–367}} Alexander also employed Greek mercenaries during his campaigns. These were men who fought for him directly and not those who fought in city-state units attached to his army.<ref>{{harvnb|Arrian|1976|loc=I, 11}}</ref>