When we talk about a phalanx in a military context, we automatically think of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian army, with its compact formation of armored infantrymen armed with long sarissas.These ...

Cyropaedia, with an English translation by Walter Miller Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Share to Tumblr. Share to ...

Cyropaedia, Volume Two, Books Five-Eight by Trans Xenophon; Walter Miller. Publication date 1914-01-01 Publisher Harvard University Press Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive ...

Writing in the fourth century BCE, Socrates’ Athenian pupil Xenophon (c. 430-354 BCE), an adventurer, soldier and political theorist of strikingly anti-democratic opinions, used his Cyropaedia, a ...

Xenophon also wrote “Cyropaedia,” which not only outlined both the military and political methods used by Cyrus the Great to conquer the late Assyrian Empire in 539 BC but outlined his thoughts on the ...

Today Lady Wroth’s Cyropaedia is shelved in the university’s Houghton Rare Books Library. Hiding in Plain Sight. In early-modern Europe, ciphers expressed romance, friendship and more.

During the 4th century B.C., a Macedonian prince read Xenophon’s “Cyropaedia”— meaning “The Education of Cyrus”— and was inspired to model his own martial ambitions after those of ...