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Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

Xenophon

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 276 pages

Xenophon's Cyropaedia is a historical and philosophical work, often described as a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great. It follows his education and rise as a ruler while exploring leadership, justice, and statecraft. It is worth listening for its influential portrait of an ideal ruler and its view of ancient Persian and Greek political thought.

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CYROPAEDIA
THE EDUCATION OF CYRUS
By Xenophon
Translated By Henry Graham Dakyns
Revised By F. M. Stawell
DEDICATION
To Clifton College
PREPARER'S NOTE
Work
Number of books
The
Anabasis
7

The
Hellenica
7
The
Cyropaedia
8
The
Memorabilia
4
The
Symposium
1
The
Economist
1
On
Horsemanship
1
The
Sportsman
1
The
Cavalry
General
1
The
Apology
1
On
Revenues
1
The
Hiero
1
The
Agesilaus
1
The Polity of the Athenians and the
Lacedaemonians   2
Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of
Greek text into English using an Oxford English
Dictionary alphabet table. The diacritical marks
have been lost.

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Contents

  1. CYROPAEDIA
  2. CYROPAEDIA

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