Xenophon's imperial fiction : on the education of Cyrus

Xenophon's imperial fiction : on the education of Cyrus /

"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...

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Main Author: Tatum, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1989]
Series:Princeton legacy library
Subjects:
Xenophon. > Cyropaedia.
Cyrus, > the Great, King of Persia, > -530 B.C. or 529 B.C. > In literature.
Political fiction, Greek > History and criticism.
Didactic fiction > History and criticism.
Education of princes in literature.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Education of princes > Greece > History.
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