2-714-433 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Battle of Cunaxa', 1890. The Battle of Cunaxa, 401 BC between Cyrus the Younger and his brother Arsaces, (Artaxerxes II). Cyrus charged his brother's bodyguard and was killed by a javelin, Mithridates who threw the javelin was was later executed for taking the kill from Artaxerxes. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. I - Early and Greek History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]