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Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus
Contributors:
By (Author) James Tatum
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Poetry
Dewey:
881.01
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
322
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
624g
Description
"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 Israe
