Cyrus and the Xenophons

Cyrus halted his army on some plane and conducted a review of all of his forces as he expected the arrival of his brother any day now. A sense that the fraternal hatred underlying Cyrus' ambitions does emerge at this point in particular, and at other times in Xenophon's account. Arontus was taken away, and while Xenophon reports he was executed, nobody knew exactly how. Diodorus makes a passing comparison to Cyrus' brazen acknowledgement of his fratricidal desires as something of the chilling quality of Oedipus' sons but Xenophon does not focus on the moral problems.