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- The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written...
- 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...
- 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...
- classical authors, including Homer, Strabo, and Xenophon. In Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Cyrus the Great helps the Armenians and Chaldians resolve a dispute over...
- 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...
- Cyrus the Great through works such as Cyropaedia. Thomas Jefferson, for example, owned two copies of Cyropaedia, one with parallel Gr**** and Latin translations...
- where he visited the tomb of Cyrus, the man whom he had heard of from the Cyropaedia.[citation needed] In the ensuing chaos created by Alexander's invasion...
- 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...
- to his parents in Persia. Xenophon also mentions Mandane in his work Cyropaedia. According to his story, Mandane and her son traveled to the court of...