02-20-2013, 07:29 PM
I think that you confuse two different events. There was such an event when he reached Persepolis, where about 800 Greek craftsmen, most old men, were being held prisoner by the Persians having suffered many ills. These his soldiers begged him to help, which he did (Diodorus 17.69). The Greeks that were met with violence were two "rebellions" of colonists who wished to return to Greece (Diodorus 17.99 and Diodorus 18.7.) Of course there might be more such accounts, these were just those that immediately came to mind.
