Cyropaedia
genre: biographical novel, historical fiction
original title: Κύρου παιδεία
original language: Classical Greek
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 (Κύρου παιδεία), 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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2- date of publication: 2015ISBN-13: 978-1-347-14799-3
- date of publication: 1994ISBN-13: 978-0-674-99058-6
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