- The
Cyropaedia,
sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a
partly fictional biography of
Cyrus the Great, the
founder of Persia's
Achaemenid Empire. It was written...
- On the
topic of
campaigns in Asia
Minor and in Babylon,
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...
-
Cyrus the
Great through works such as
Cyropaedia.
Thomas Jefferson, for example,
owned two
copies of
Cyropaedia, one with
parallel Gr**** 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...
-
collection of
Elamite instruments do****ented at Kul-e Farah. Xenophon's
Cyropaedia mentions singing women at the
court of the
Achaemenid Empire.
Under the...
-
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...
-
battle they were the
first to
engage and the last to withdraw. In the
Cyropaedia (IV, 2),
Xenophon compares them to the
Hyrcanian cavalry, used by the...
- 4th
century BC,
makes a p****ing
reference to
division of
labour in his
Cyropaedia (a.k.a.
Education of Cyrus). Just as the
various trades are most highly...
