# Sometimes Winning Is Not Enough

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Podcast: [Quintus Curtius](https://stenobird.com/podcast/quintus-curtius-216861)
Published: 2025-05-02T01:38:12+00:00
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Sometimes even a decisive victory is not enough. Your victory may immediately be followed by greater challenges that test you to the ultimate limit. There is no such thing as reaching an "end zone." We discuss the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 B.C., where the Greek mercenaries of Cyrus won the battle, but immediately realized that their fight for survival had just begun. One man, a natural leader named Xenophon the Athenian, then stepped forward to assume the responsibility of command.

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