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Author : Xenophon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tales from the Cyropaedia of Xenophon written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Levine Gera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198144779
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Xenophon's Cyropaedia written by Deborah Levine Gera and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates - his life, ideas, and techniques of argument - is an indirect presence in the work, and the Socratic tenor of several of the dialogues in it is the subject of one chapter. The lovely Panthea, the fairest woman in Asia, is Xenophon's most colourful heroine and her story, along with the dramatic tales of the eunuch Gadatas, bereaved Gobyras, and defeated Crosesus, are the focus of another section; special attention is paid to the question of Xenophon's originality in fashioning these tales. The symposia of the Cyropaedia, with their intricate blend of Greek and Persian elements, are also investigated at length.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The story of Cyrus written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471419
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Education of Cyrus written by Xenophon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xenophon's masterpiece The Education of Cyrus—a work admired by Machiavelli for its lessons on leadership—is at last available in a new English translation for a new century. Also known as the Cyropaedia, this philosophical novel is loosely based on the accomplishments of Cyrus the Great, founder of the vast Persian Empire that later became the archrival of the Greeks in the classical age. It offers an extraordinary portrait of political ambition, talent, and their ultimate limits. The writings of Xenophon are increasingly recognized as important works of political philosophy. In The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon confronts the vexing problem of political instability by exploring the character and behavior of the ruler. Impressive though his successes are, however, Cyrus is also examined in the larger human context, in which love, honor, greed, revenge, folly, piety, and the search for wisdom all have important parts to play. Wayne Ambler's prose captures the charm and drama of the work while also achieving great accuracy. His introduction, annotations, and glossary help the reader to appreciate both the engaging story itself and the volume's contributions to philosophy.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387017596
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Cyropaedia; The Education of Cyrus written by Xenophon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142990531X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Xenophon's Cyrus the Great written by Xenophon and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyrus, a great Persian leader, was so widely and memorably respected that a hundred years later, Xenophon of Athens wrote this admiring book about the greatest leader of his era. Larry Hedrick's Introduction describes Cyrus and his times. Among his many achievements, this great leader of wisdom and virtue founded and extended the Persian Empire; conquered Babylon; freed 40,000 Jews from captivity; wrote mankind's first human rights charter; and ruled over those he had conquered with respect and benevolence. According to historian Will Durant, Cyrus the Great's military enemies knew that he was lenient, and they did not fight him with that desperate courage which men show when their only choice is "to kill or die." As a result the Iranians regarded him as "The Father," the Babylonians as "The Liberator," the Greeks as the "Law-Giver," and the Jews as the "Anointed of the Lord." By freshening the voice, style and diction of Cyrus, Larry Hedrick has created a more contemporary Cyrus. A new generation of readers, including business executives and managers, military officers, and government officials, can now learn about and benefit from Cyrus the Great's extraordinary achievements, which exceeded all other leaders' throughout antiquity.
Author : Michael A. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107050065
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon written by Michael A. Flower and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Hiero of Xenophon written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781515367291
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Cyropaedia written by Xenophon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyropaedia - The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon - In substance, the Cyropaedia is "a political romance, describing the education of the ideal ruler, trained to rule as a benevolent despot over his admiring and willing subjects." Although it is "generally agreed" that Xenophon "did not intend Cyropaedia as history", it remains unclear whether this work was intended to fit into any other classical genre known before. Its validity as a source of Achaemenid history has been repeatedly questioned, and numerous descriptions of events or persons have been determined to be in error. However, it is not clear that the work was intended to be used this way. Despite such doubts, it has been argued that Xenophon's Cyropaedia offers a glimpse of the character of Cyrus the Great of Achaemenid Persia. The source gives "an artist's portrait" of Cyrus as "the Ideal Ruler and the best form of Government", a description that "could not have been painted had there not been a credible memory of such a Cyrus". Xenophon (c. 431 - 355 BC) was not a contemporary of Cyrus (c. 580 - 530 BC) and it is likely that at least some of the information about Persia was based on events that occurred at the later Achaemenid court. Xenophon had been in Persia himself, as part of the "Ten Thousand" Greek soldiers who fought on the losing side in a Persian civil war, events which he recounted in his Anabasis. It is also possible that stories of the great King were recounted (and embellished) by court society and that these are the basis of Xenophon's text.
Author : James Tatum
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860032
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Xenophon's Imperial Fiction written by James Tatum and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ". . . you will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon's Education of Cyrus, or the Cyropaedia." The Cyrus in question is Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire celebrated in the Book of Ezra as the liberator of Israel, and the Cyropaedia, written to instruct future rulers by his example, became not only an inspiration to poets and novelists but a profoundly influential political work. With Alexander as its earliest student, and Elizabeth I of England one of its later pupils, it was the founding text for the tradition of "mirrors for princes" in the West, including Machiavelli's Prince. Xenophon's masterpiece has been overlooked in recent years: Tatum's goal is to make it fully meaningful for the twentieth-century reader. To accomplish this aim, he uses reception study, philological and historical criticism, and an intertextual and structural analysis of the narrative. Engaging the fictional and the political in a single reading, he explains how the form of the work allowed Xenophon to transcend the limitations of historical writing, although in the end the historian's passion for truth forced him to subvert the work in a controversial epilogue. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589985
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Xenophon and Sparta written by Anton Powell and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xenophon has for long, and understandably, enjoyed a privileged position as a reliable source on Sparta. Commander of a grand military expedition of Sparta's devising, and a dependent of Sparta's influential king Agesilaos, Xenophon knew Sparta from the inside, and - as himself an Athenian in exile - was well placed to comment on Sparta's difference. The simplicity of his Greek style has a perfume of honesty. And yet... Recent research has with increasing force called into doubt Xenophon's motives and truthfulness - especially as regards Sparta. Analysis of his Hellenica reveals much evasion and euphemism about Sparta's failings - complicated by occasional outbursts against the iniquity of Spartan imperialism. His euphemistic Constitution of the Lakedaimonians (itself containing such an outburst), and his near-hagiography of the dead Agesilaos, have variously evoked trust and suspicion in historians. This book, by a distinguished team of specialists in Spartan history, is the first of a short series from CPW, approaching Spartan reality by way of close analysis of our main contemporary Greek sources: their access, their biases, the literary structure and the genre of their works.
Author : Xenophon (of Athens.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The story of Cyrus, adapted from Xenophon's Cyropaedia by C.W. Gleason written by Xenophon (of Athens.) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Watson Goodwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb written by William Watson Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ehsan Yarshater
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780710090904
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia Iranica written by Ehsan Yarshater and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1982 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xenophon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book The Persian Expedition written by Xenophon and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959622
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises written by Xenophon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Socrates' Athenian disciples in his youth, Xenophon (c. 498-354 bc) fought as a mercenary commander in Cyrus the Younger's campaign to seize the Persian throne, and later wrote a wide range of works on history, politics and philosophy. These six treatises offer his informed insights into the nature of leadership. In the dialogue between the poet Simonides and Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, Xenophon provides a consummate consideration of the burdens of being an absolute dictator and the superior happiness of the private man. Elsewhere, his biography of King Agesilaus II of Sparta depicts the author's patron as a model of piety, justice, courage and wisdom, while other texts consider the essential qualities of the cavalry commander, analyse the skills of the horseman and the hunter, and advance a bold economic plan for democratic Athens.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368309315
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The Cavalry General written by Xenophon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-19 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
