| #750164 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1914-01-01 | 1914-01-31 | Original language:Ancient Greek | PDF # 1 | 6.75 x.80 x4.53l,.61 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A beautifully paced book|By Amy E. K. Vail|The Cyropaedia ought to be required reading for any aspiring politician. A beautifully paced book, full of twists and turns.
Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BCE) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After the defeat of Cyrus, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast through inhospitable lands. Later he wrote the famous vivid account of this 'March Up-Country' (Anabasis); but meanwhile he entered serv...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Xenophon: Cyropaedia Volume V: Books 1-4 (Loeb Classical Library) | Xenophon.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
