Xenophon,  432 BCE-351? BCE <br/><br/>
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus 

 - 1 online resource :  multiple file formats 
 - Everyman's library, [no. 672] .
 - Everyman's library, [no. 672] .
<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyropaedia  Release date is 2000-02-01 
<br/><br/>Produced by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger  Produced by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger 
<br/><br/> "Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus" by Xenophon is a partly fictional biography written around 370 BC. It chronicles the education and rise of Cyrus the Great, founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. Through battles, strategic innovations, and leadership lessons, Xenophon presents an ideal ruler navigating the complexities of building an unprecedented empire. Blending political instruction with narrative storytelling, the work became a foundational text influencing medieval mirrors-for-princes literature and ultimately shaping modern political thought through its impact on Machiavelli's "The Prince." (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Biographical fiction Cyrus, King of Persia, -529 B.C. -- Fiction Education of princes -- Fiction 
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