The Cyropaedia, Or Institution of Cyrus
Author : Xenophon
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Page : 614 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 1891
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Author : Xenophon
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Page : 614 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 1891
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Author : Xenophon
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Page : 620 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Greece
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Author : Xenophon
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Page : 94 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Despotism
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Author : Deborah Levine Gera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198144779
Socrates - his life, ideas, and techniques of argument - is an indirect presence in the work, and the Socratic tenor of several of the dialogues in it is the subject of one chapter. The lovely Panthea, the fairest woman in Asia, is Xenophon's most colourful heroine and her story, along with the dramatic tales of the eunuch Gadatas, bereaved Gobyras, and defeated Crosesus, are the focus of another section; special attention is paid to the question of Xenophon's originality in fashioning these tales. The symposia of the Cyropaedia, with their intricate blend of Greek and Persian elements, are also investigated at length.
Author : Michael A. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1107050065
Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.
Author : Xenophon
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142990531X
Cyrus, a great Persian leader, was so widely and memorably respected that a hundred years later, Xenophon of Athens wrote this admiring book about the greatest leader of his era. Larry Hedrick's Introduction describes Cyrus and his times. Among his many achievements, this great leader of wisdom and virtue founded and extended the Persian Empire; conquered Babylon; freed 40,000 Jews from captivity; wrote mankind's first human rights charter; and ruled over those he had conquered with respect and benevolence. According to historian Will Durant, Cyrus the Great's military enemies knew that he was lenient, and they did not fight him with that desperate courage which men show when their only choice is "to kill or die." As a result the Iranians regarded him as "The Father," the Babylonians as "The Liberator," the Greeks as the "Law-Giver," and the Jews as the "Anointed of the Lord." By freshening the voice, style and diction of Cyrus, Larry Hedrick has created a more contemporary Cyrus. A new generation of readers, including business executives and managers, military officers, and government officials, can now learn about and benefit from Cyrus the Great's extraordinary achievements, which exceeded all other leaders' throughout antiquity.
Author : Andrew Michael Ramsay
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1779
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Author : Ramsay
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 1760
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Author : Ramsay (Chevalier, Andrew Michael)
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1760
Category : Voyages, Imaginary
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Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0674495799
From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an enduring fascination that has shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians up to the present day. Persophilia maps the changing geography of connections between Persia and the West over the centuries and shows that traffic in ideas about Persia and Persians did not travel on a one-way street. How did Iranians respond when they saw themselves reflected in Western mirrors? Expanding on Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, and overcoming the limits of Edward Said, Hamid Dabashi answers this critical question by tracing the formation of a civic discursive space in Iran, seeing it as a prime example of a modern nation-state emerging from an ancient civilization in the context of European colonialism. The modern Iranian public sphere, Dabashi argues, cannot be understood apart from this dynamic interaction. Persophilia takes into its purview works as varied as Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Handel’s Xerxes and Puccini’s Turandot, and Gauguin and Matisse’s fascination with Persian art. The result is a provocative reading of world history that dismantles normative historiography and alters our understanding of postcolonial nations.