Not only did Thomas Jefferson own two copies of Xenophon’s biography of Cyrus the Great, Cyropaedia, but the Cylinder’s ideas gained widespread popularity among political thinkers in Europe and the ...

The Persians he ruled as a wise and capable leader applauded him, and this legacy continued on in his death as Xenophon (Greek philosopher and student of Socrates) chose Cyrus to name as a model ...

The Greek historian Xenophon (about 430–354 B.C.) presented him as an ideal leader in his Cyropaedia, while Old Testament texts praise Cyrus for bringing an end to the Jewish exile in Babylon. The ...

In his later writings, Xenophon continued to explore these themes. His works on leadership, such as the Cyropaedia, reflect the lessons he learned during the march of the Ten Thousand. The Anabasis ...

A comprehensive interpretation of Argenis needs to take into account the novel’s particular didactic slant, brought about by Barclay’s contaminatio of the romance traits of Heliodorus’s Aethiopica ...

As a result, northern cities tended to be smaller with more people living in outlying settlements. Although they were still city states at heart, they had more of an appearance of being small kingdoms ...

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McCloskey, Benjamin 2022. Finding a New Sophist: On Polyphony and Xenophon's Cyropaedia . Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 47, Issue. 2, p. 269. Tamiolaki, Melina ...

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The Greek historian Xenophon (about 430–354 B.C.) presented him as an ideal leader in his Cyropaedia, while Old Testament texts praise Cyrus for bringing an end to the Jewish exile in Babylon. The ...

Classics is the study of all aspects of the life and culture of ancient Greece and Rome in their Mediterranean context and their enduring relevance to our lives. The Department of Classics offers all ...