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Xenophon's Cyropaedia: Style, Genre, and Literary Technique
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Xenophon's Cyropaedia: Style, Genre, and Literary Technique
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This book is a literary study of the
, Xenophon's fictional account of Cyrus the Great and the founding of his empire. The
is a complex blend of various literary forms, and this book examines several of its literary genres. General discussions of the works of Xenophon's predecessors and contemporaries, in particular Herodotus, Plato, and Ctesias, are combined with a detailed commentary on select passages.