The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written...

mercenaries after Cyrus's death in the Battle of Cunaxa. Xenophon wrote Cyropaedia, outlining both military and political methods used by Cyrus the Great...

the night before the akitu festival in honor of Sin, the moon god. The Cyropaedia, a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great which may contain a historical...

universally accepted by current scholarship. According to Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1.5.2), Cyaxares II became king after Astyages to the throne of the Median...

classical authors, including Homer, Strabo, and Xenophon. In Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Cyrus the Great helps the Armenians and Chaldians resolve a dispute over...

collection of Elamite instruments documented at Kul-e Farah. Xenophon's Cyropaedia mentions singing women at the court of the Achaemenid Empire. Under the...

Cyrus the Great through works such as Cyropaedia. Thomas Jefferson, for example, owned two copies of Cyropaedia, one with parallel Greek and Latin translations...

Achaemenid ruler Cyrus the Great (r. 550–530 BC). He appears in both the Cyropaedia of the Greek soldier and historian Xenophon (died 354 BC) and the History...

to his parents in Persia. Xenophon also mentions Mandane in his work Cyropaedia. According to his story, Mandane and her son traveled to the court of...

Alexander admired Cyrus the Great, from an early age reading Xenophon's Cyropaedia, which described Cyrus's heroism in battle and governance as a king and...

Histories Euripides (c. 480–406 BC), Greek playwright Xenophon: Anabasis, Cyropaedia Aristotle (384–322 BC), corpus Aristotelicum Hellenistic to Roman period...

Smyth. A Greek Grammar for Colleges. § 1943. Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.2.9 Xenophon, Cyropaedia 2.2.9 Smyth. A Greek Grammar for Colleges. § 2305.ff Xenophon...

Great (that is, 6th century BCE), according to Xenophon's Cyropaedia. Xenophon, Cyropaedia ii. 1. ~ 5, iv. 2. ~ 31  This article incorporates text from...

personification of the Orontid dynasty. Orontes appears in both in the Cyropaedia of the Greek soldier and historian Xenophon (died 354 BC) and the History...

references and source-material comes from Herodotus’ Histories and Xenophon's Cyropaedia. Other sources include Plutarch, Justin, Polyaenus, Pliny, Ovid, Strabon...

where he visited the tomb of Cyrus, the man whom he had heard of from the Cyropaedia.[citation needed] In the ensuing chaos created by Alexander's invasion...

maintaining the corps as a cohesive entity with a constant strength. Xenophon (Cyropaedia 6.4.1; 7.1.2) describes the guard of Cyrus the Great as having bronze...

Eleans sacrifice first to Hestia and then to other gods. Xenophon in Cyropaedia wrote that Cyrus the Great sacrificed first to Hestia, then to sovereign...

experience at the Persian Achaemenid court. In his early 4th century BC Cyropaedia, Xenophon depicts the magians as authorities for all religious matters...

despotic ruler) and Ctesias’ favorable one, are both biased. Xenophon's Cyropaedia depicts him as a kindly old gentleman devoted to his grandson Cyrus, but...

Rabshakeh. See further on cupbearers: Herodotus. Histories. iii.34. Xenophon. Cyropaedia. i.3, 8, 9. Josephus. Antiquities of the Jews. XVI, viii, 1. Book of Tobit...

troops, fled to Median territory and was easily captured. Xenophon, in his Cyropaedia, recounts that Astyages died peacefully in his bed as the king of Media...

influenced those about Porcia. The character of Panthea in Xenophon's Cyropaedia also presents similarities to Plutarch's Porcia – with both women expressing...

4th century BC, makes a passing reference to division of labour in his Cyropaedia (a.k.a. Education of Cyrus). Just as the various trades are most highly...

ancient Greek writer Xenophon (445-355 gg. BC. E.) In his historical novel Cyropaedia ("Education of Cyrus") describes in detail the formulation of education...

us from Xenophon's partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the Cyropaedia. According to it, he was an ally of the Assyrians against Cyrus the Great...

wait for their horse to rest. Angarium Angarum Xenophon (1855). "The Cyropaedia": or, Institution of Cyrus, and the Hellenics, or Grecian history. (Literally...

Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BCE work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great. The exact form...

you (i.e., please pay..)". "ὦ μῆτερ, ὡς καλός μοι ὁ πάππος." (Xenophon, Cyropaedia 18.178). "Oh, mother, how handsome grandpa is (I've just realized!)"....

drafša-, Middle Persian drafš, cognate with Sanskrit drapsá-). Xenophon in Cyropaedia (7.1.4) describes the standard of Artaxerxes II at Cunaxa as "a golden...