The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written...

mercenaries after Cyrus's death in the Battle of Cunaxa. Xenophon wrote Cyropaedia, outlining both military and political methods used by Cyrus the Great...

the night before the akitu festival in honor of Sin, the moon god. The Cyropaedia, a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great which may contain a historical...

universally accepted by current scholarship. According to Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1.5.2), Cyaxares II became king after Astyages to the throne of the Median...

collection of Elamite instruments documented at Kul-e Farah. Xenophon's Cyropaedia mentions singing women at the court of the Achaemenid Empire. Under the...

Cyrus the Great through works such as Cyropaedia. Thomas Jefferson, for example, owned two copies of Cyropaedia, one with parallel Greek and Latin translations...

classical authors, including Homer, Strabo, and Xenophon. In Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Cyrus the Great helps the Armenians and Chaldians resolve a dispute over...

Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great (r. 550–530 BC). He appears in both the Cyropaedia of the Greek soldier and historian Xenophon (died 354 BC) and the History...

Alexander admired Cyrus the Great, from an early age reading Xenophon's Cyropaedia, which described Cyrus's heroism in battle and governance as a king and...

Great (that is, 6th century BCE), according to Xenophon's Cyropaedia. Xenophon, Cyropaedia ii. 1. ~ 5, iv. 2. ~ 31  This article incorporates text from...