The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written...
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Xenophon (section Cyropaedia)
mercenaries after Cyrus's death in the Battle of Cunaxa. Xenophon wrote Cyropaedia, outlining both military and political methods used by Cyrus the Great...
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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...
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Cyaxares II (section Xenophon’s Cyropaedia)
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...
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collection of Elamite instruments documented at Kul-e Farah. Xenophon's Cyropaedia mentions singing women at the court of the Achaemenid Empire. Under the...
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Cyrus the Great through works such as Cyropaedia. Thomas Jefferson, for example, owned two copies of Cyropaedia, one with parallel Greek and Latin translations...
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classical authors, including Homer, Strabo, and Xenophon. In Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Cyrus the Great helps the Armenians and Chaldians resolve a dispute over...
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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...
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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...
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Great (that is, 6th century BCE), according to Xenophon's Cyropaedia. Xenophon, Cyropaedia ii. 1. ~ 5, iv. 2. ~ 31 This article incorporates text from...
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