Cyropaedia

by Xenophon

Books that mention Cyropaedia (4)

• The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade: “in the library of the Vatican, and had set Poggio to translate Diodorus Siculus and Xenophon's Cyropaedia, Laurentius Valla to translate Herodotus and Thucydides, Theodore Gaza, Theophrastus; George of Trebizond, Eusebius, and certain treatises of Plato, etc.”
• The Nature of Alexander by Mary Renault: “The most picturesque subplot of Xenophon's Cyropaedia is the story of Cyrus and the Lady of Susa”
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “Xenophon, in the preface to the Cyropaedia, gives a clear and magnificent idea of the extent of the empire of Cyrus.”
• The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “5656. Cyropaedia. cum Pantheae forman evexisset Araspus, tanto magis, inquit Cyrus abstinere oportet, quanto pulchrior est.”