Xenophon's Imperial Fiction : : On The Education of Cyrus / / James Tatum.
"If you inquire into the origins of the novel long enough," writes James Tatum in the preface to this work, ". . . you will come to the fourth century before our era and Xenophon's Education of Cyrus, or the Cyropaedia." The Cyrus in question is Cyrus the Great, the founder...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- I. APPROACHING CYRUS AND HIS EDUCATION
- Chapter One. The Classic as Footnote
- Chapter Two. The Rise of a Novel
- II. THE EDUCATION OF CYRUS
- FAMILY
- Chapter Three. The Curious Return of Cambyses
- Chapter Four. The Grandson of Astyages
- FOES
- Chapter Five. The Envy of Uncle Cyaxares
- Chapter Six. Dialectical Imperialism: Tigranes and the Sophist of Armenia
- Chapter Seven. In the Face of the Enemy: A Meeting with Croesus of Lydia
- FRIENDS
- Chapter Eight. The Uses of Eros and the Hero
- Chapter Nine. The Economy of Empire
- III. LEAVING CYRUS
- Chapter Ten. Revision
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- INDEX LOCORUM