- The
Cyropaedia,
sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a
partly fictional biography of
Cyrus the Great, the
founder of Persia's
Achaemenid Empire. It was written...
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mercenaries after Cyrus's
death in the
Battle of Cunaxa.
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...
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Cyrus the
Great through works such as
Cyropaedia.
Thomas Jefferson, for example,
owned two
copies of
Cyropaedia, one with
parallel Gr**** and
Latin translations...
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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...
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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...
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Eleans sacrifice first to
Hestia and then to
other gods.
Xenophon in
Cyropaedia wrote that
Cyrus the
Great sacrificed first to Hestia, then to sovereign...
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classical authors,
including Homer, Strabo, and Xenophon. In Xenophon's
Cyropaedia,
Cyrus the
Great helps the
Armenians and
Chaldians resolve a
dispute over...
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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...
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Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the
Great (r. 550–530 BC). He
appears in both the
Cyropaedia of the Gr****
soldier and
historian Xenophon (died 354 BC) and the History...
