History · 1914

Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

The education and rule of Cyrus the Great, in eight books

by Xenophon

Translated by Henry Graham Dakyns, rev. F. M. Stawell (1914)

Xenophon's romance-like life of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian empire: his Persian upbringing, his campaigns, and his ideal of the ruler who wins willing obedience.


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