Cyropaedia
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thumb|Xenophon's Cyropaedia, 1803 English edition. The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written around 370 BC by Xenophon, the Athenian-born soldier, historian, and student of Socrates. The Latinized title Cyropaedia derives from the Greek Kúrou paideía (), meaning The Education of Cyrus. Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre mirrors for princes. In turn, the Cyropaedia strongly influenced the most well-known but atypical of these, Machiavelli's The Princ
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Named after
- Cyrus the Great
- Author
- Xenophon
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Image
- Xenophōntos Kyrou paideias biblia oktō.png
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- language of work or name
- Classical Greek
- Commons category
- Cyropaedia
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- title
- Κύρου παιδεία
- form of creative work
- novel
- entry in abbreviations table
- Xen. Cyrop.
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Format
- Synopsis
- Book One
- Book Two
- Book Three
- Meaning of the Text
- Book One
- Books Two to Seven
- Book Eight
- Reception
- Legacy
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|Xenophon's Cyropaedia, 1803 English edition. The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written around 370 BC by Xenophon, the Athenian-born soldier, historian, and student of Socrates. The Latinized title Cyropaedia derives from the Greek Kúrou paideía (), meaning The Education of Cyrus. Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre mirrors for princes. In turn, the Cyropaedia strongly influenced the most well-known but atypical of these, Machiavelli's The Prince, which fostered the rejection of medieval political thinking and development of modern politics.
==Format== thumb|1594 edition
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