Kingdom versus empire in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

This paper examines the role of the distinction between the Persian kingdom and the Persian empire drawn in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia with the view to showing that Cyrus’s government of his empire does not lend itself to a darker reading, but rather that his style of rule is based on an aris...

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Main Author: Jordović Ivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Balkan Studies SASA 2016-01-01
Series:Balcanica
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2016/0350-76531647035J.pdf