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20%OFFJames Tatum - Xenophon´s Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus - 9780691606668 - V9780691606668
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Xenophon´s Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus

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Description for Xenophon´s Imperial Fiction: On The Education of Cyrus Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 322 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 457.
"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 Israel, and the Cyropaedia, written to instruct future rulers by his example, became not only an inspiration to poets and novelists but a profoundly influential political work. With Alexander as its earliest student, and Elizabeth I of England ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
322
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691606668
SKU
V9780691606668
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