410s BC - Contemporaries of Future Importance

Contemporaries of Future Importance

  • Artaxerxes of Persia, Achaemenid prince and future King of Persia
  • Cyrus the Younger of Persia, Achaemenid prince and satrap
  • Plato of Athens, student of Socrates and future philosopher
  • Xenophon of Athens, soldier and future writer of Anabasis

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