A life of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian empire, written as a portrait of the ideal ruler: more novel than history, and read for two thousand years as a handbook on leadership. Cicero says Scipio Africanus never let it out of his hands.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Education of Cyrus that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: H. G. Dakyns, rev. F. M. Stawell, 1914. Source: Gutenberg 2085.
The text here is H. G. Dakyns’s translation, completed after his death by F. M. Stawell for Everyman’s Library, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 2085. Dakyns’s section numbers and the notes after each book are not printed.
The eighth book ends with an epilogue on the decline of Persia after Cyrus, which some scholars think was added by another hand.
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